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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on the

NE of the many virtues combined in the character

of the Plucky Little Woman (your Uncle Nat's Life Partner) is the virtue of loyalty.

So, when she gave her foyalty to 1945 the present Government in (even to the extent of dragging mnt- tering old men off stiles and invalida from their beds, to vote for it) the the present Government had, in PLW..

staunchest. of their опе

friends in Britain.

As we all know, many will give you their friendship when you are successful. Most will withdraw it when you are not.

Once given to Governments or people, the friendship of the P.LW. transcerids all the buife'ings that fate may have in store for you. Indeed, it thrives on buffelings. The harder your luck, the firmer her friendship. The more you are abused the mure passionate her defence.

Therefore, all the abuse hurled at

Fence

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

Her hatreds are as violent as her She is lying in bed, too, with her loves, her memory as long as an hindi covered, making muffled re- elephant's, and she remembers things marks about people who are prob. about the National Funny which ably trying to wreck her Govern- tolerant people have tried to forget, ment by burning fuel this very Marcover, it has indirectly attacked ninu.c. Mr Allee, who has enjoyed her pro- elghteen tecllon for months.

Whenever anybody, attacks Mr A. rlc reminds them of ha rank in the Kaiser's war.

more than

✩

miliary

Anybody who says a word against Mr A. (Clem to her gets the full

The hours drag on towards twelve o'clock and at five minutes to your Uncle puts a hand gingerly out of bed and tries to swhich on the he. ter.

ho

eyes

The wind roars in. Your Uncle takes cover. The P.L.W. leans out and makes kitekting nolsen to the birds.

Presently the PLW. looks rand, her hair allstening with snow, and reports:-

"They're using the potato skins as hot bottles and stamping their little claws on them, the pels."

All creatures she loves are "pets" -all birds, all animals and the en- tire Cabinet,"

Cake for Mr. B.

NE

O hates is poor Mr Bloodsucker, of the creatures the P.L,W,

the income-tax collector.

It is no use telling hier he is not responsible for the rate of income tax and

is only doing his duty, And it's no use blaming Mr Dalion.. He's one of the pets.

While

under we are clothes waiting for switching-on the PLW. time at four o'clock,

POCKET CARTOON -

"Guess what's for breaki

fast, dear."

BY THE

WAY

our bed by Beachcomber

Mbesten during the presunt crisis blast of her oratory and usually, re- watching him over the eiderdown he thinks up her revenge for Mr B.'s TREN light was shed on

only increases her sympathy for the Government and her contempt for the Opposition,, whom she compares to a gang of rude and noisy urchins without the charm of youth.

In other words, she is prepared to freeze to death for Mr Shirwell.

Defending Mr. A,

IT is about a am, and your

is engaged in his morning tack of glaring though all the morning newspapers, He has handel the No tional Funny Morning Newspaper to the P.LW, because he never feels strong enough to read it early in the day.

"As a mater of fact he never feels trong enough to read it at any time, het duty is cuty ond newspapers are his trade

Presenly squeaks of indignation come from the next room where the P.L. W. is shivering under an elder down reading The National Funty. She shouts: The National Funny says Mr Attice was boned at the Churchill wedding. Is it in any other paper?"

So your Uncle has to wrench his goggling eyes from the adventures of Garth, that muscle-bound old teaser of women, who is his favourlie comic strip character, and concentrate on reports of the Churchill wedding.

Alter caretul search, he fails to find anything about bouing In other paper and shouts back: "No. It's a National Funny scoop."

As a couple of old newspaper re- porters we both know incans.

what

the

tist

Presently the-P.L.W. shaking with cold and fury, comes into your Uncle's,

room and leads off about the Na- tional Funny in a big way.

tires, hurt.

Then she notices that it is 9.10 a.m. exactly and that your Uncle's electric heater is still on.

This, she says, is pinin subotage of the fuel-saving appeal. Your Uncle saya after all, it is only ten minutes over the official time.

She replies that if 10,000,000 pico-

ple kept heaters on ten minutes over me that would be ten times 10,000, on minutes, which she can't work out at the moment, but is enough to wreck the plans of Mr Shinwell.

having

She also points out that more than your share of fuel in a national emergency is as low at meon as was having more than your share of food when ships were being sunk.

Your Uncle, who remembers ac ecpting the gift of a quarter of a pound of tea in 1942, also huri-to bed.

Helping Mr. S.

retires

Tis impossible to read in bed with the heater off; even if your Uncle wears mittens and his Home Guard is very balaclava helmet. There

lle coal and no wood at all un less we are prepared to chop up the furniture,

The Nest is 600 feet above ፍጹ

level, and the cast wind whistles through every ill-fitting window. So your Uncle is obliged to throw away the papers and keep his hands warm under the bedclothes.

And even the Plucky Little Wo- man, who usually keeps warm by moving the furniture from one room In another, and is never happier than when all the windows and doors are wide open, seem defeated by this austerity.

THE MAN WHO HAS ISSUED

71⁄2 MILLION TICKETS REFLECTS ON -

He thought the PLW's head was

blue sees her reproachful still under the bedclothes, but when

withdraws the naughty hand..

The P.L.W. says it would help Mr Shinwell it we didn't burn our fuel between twelve and two; also help to make up for the fuel burned by ends and wreckers between nine and twelve.

It is your Uncle's turn to make mulled remurks, this time about Mr Sainwell.

The P.L.W. Jumps, out of her bed with the sudden determination of somebody whose mind is mude up to commit sulekde.

dirty letter which arrived with the demand for rates.

thu mystery of the sausage skins yesterday when officials She is going to ask Mr Blood- of the Sausage Skin Security sucker to tea between two und four Police found an enormous dump in the afternoon. He is going to sit of skins in a quarry with his back to the window that Budlow-Sotfield. won't

shut and faces north-cast and the is going to make him a poisoned cake,

near

A family evicted

to make way for a satellite town had bullt a Of course, it won't be poisoned in bungalow from the skies. The S.S.S. the ordinary way, says the Surrey reckoned that if all the king had

been used as sausage-casings there Borgia, but it will be made of dried

enough sausages, es, stale bits of bread and lashings would have been ene of some rancid dripping.

if there had been any

any sausages inside She says he is going to prepare with the

She says that after two hours the casings, to reach from Bridport draught on his neck and almost to Billingshurst (taking the lunch, though she doesn't know what of, as

the as the ashmonger has been is slonach distended with her cake, elreultous route round Amtfold, fol- between footpath closed for a week. She says she will Mr Bloodsucker will either arrest lowing

it will be cosier, your Uncle on the spot or will drop Rensham Common and Stack Corner,

and avoiding the Enfield bypass, bring it upstairs,

Cester with the heater on, asies dead on the way to the station,

as to emerge on the Tramley road your Uncle? The PLW.

points out

the Home forty yards beyond that if everybody sacrificed Uncir

Gravedigger's Arms). fuel ration between 12 and two the crisis would be over in a few days.

Potato v. Poteto cold American The cosy lunch, sausage and hot baked potatoes, ar- rives. Just when your Uncle hat rubbed enough circulation Into his blue fingers to hold a knife and for the P.L.W. hears some hungry birds cry in the garden.

Triumph of Mr. S.

IT is evening and the PLW, has

chught your Unele out twice leaving a light on in the bathroom. He has caught her out once leaving

Gooschoole: Would you say, Mr. Potato, that the possession of an on- light on in the kitchen and is feel-cestor who was employed as a gar- dener to the deceased King Henry ing rather smug.

for At six o'clock we listen, shivering, 11. is suficient justification to Stuart Hibberd reading the news, offensive nostril-twitching? Stuart Hibberd always seems faled 10 read bad news,

We remember he always informed Hungry birds have been on the

She us of the worst disasters during the PL.W's mind for some time. has longed to throw bread to them, war. This time, reading rather fast, but as Mr Strachey is also under as if he might be shivering too, he to be im- her protection, she has been unable tells us of the penalties

posed for infringements of the fuel to do this

Now

has a bright Idea. The regulations. potato

skins are not likely to be" nice without butter, which we can't spare, sp what about throwing potato slins to them? Mr S. couldn't ob- Ject to that,

So the window is opened wide and out go the potato skine, including your Uncle's with most of the pota- to attached to it.

THE CITIZEN CATCHING

A TRAIN

OR fifty years Mr Joseph Maurer has been looking at life from the window of a railway booking office-most of the time at St. Pancras. It is doubtful whether anyone else has studied human nature from this angle for so long.

Mr Maurer retired recently from the tickel-issuing job he has done since he was 15, taking with him. besides the deep comfort of duty well done, many reflections on the spectacle of The Briton Catching a Train.

Flustered people Back at hin

house in Northolin, Edgware, Mr Maurer will pon- der again over his eternal puzzle: "Why is it that most of you, even the intelligent ones who are always calmn in ordinary life. get flustered when you get to n railway station?

you

"Why do start pushing each other as you stand in front of the booking offlec,

although you have plenty of time to catch your train?

Why is it this excitement which power to se

Man is a belter

than woman, he saus.

The tiny booking-office

windows

at St Pancras were designed in 1885. They have never been chang ed: "A dwarf window which makes the passenger stoop helps to club traveller his fluster, train

of tickets to Hundreds

remote stations in the racks unused for years. Flyblown and faded, they are eventually replaced.

A woman becomes helpless more easily than a man. Or con she made up her mind about her route and no advice will change it.

is there an hotel?"

lic

Most infrequently used stations on the L.M.S. routes served from S1 Paneras are those between Setile, York, and Carlisle,

Closed stations NEARLY

Usc.

100 stations have been

A person who has one question answered by the booking clerk in

"What variably asks a lot more: time does the train arrive, what platform does it go from, where do closed to passenger traffic in Mr of lack of I change, what stations does it stop Maurer's time because at, can i get a bus at the other end.

Timit travellers often come back in the clerk asking for their money back, "I couldn't get in. They wouldn't even open the door."

Fifty years ago when a woman a plat- went on holiday she fled form trolley with her trunks. Now she normally takes only the luggage she can carry, and wants a taxi for

And others sometimes usk: "Can you send a message to say I'm ar- riving? Will you book me accom- modation?"

Mild-mannered Mr Maurer sum- med up his life's work: "I've made very little money, but my job has brought me happiness.

'Lost' tickets passengers who "lose" thefe

"The it, too. tickets Mr Maurer says: Bustered person may declare: 'I didn't pick the ticket up, and I can see it in his hand as he speaks."

Young children sometimes ask for

"I've been able to do

my duty a ticket. "I can generally tell if they

home, and calmly, stand back and let the par- are running away from

among them- station police are tactfully called sengers fight it out,

Boutside my window.

the old days before the One of the most frequent questions the ticket is: Is it a fast train? Booking clerks amalgamations there was keen rivalry between the rallways, and we took are so tired of this one that they

pride in getting the customers, to "The sense of urgency has passed, usually answer yes.” and with serene patience you wait

People are far more brusque to travel by our line.

"After the amalgamations there an hour or two hours for your train. the clerk, and rudor to one another was less of the rivalry but it is still

The first-class travellers are the than they used to be 50 years ago.

a spur. worst. They

are the most domi at have seen chivalry die in front of my window.". Derring."

"The man who has issued 7,900,- 000 tickets-sometimes 1,500 a day has other comments, other memo

deprives some people of the

ask coherently for their ticket. leaves you the is issued?

ries.

moment

"Under. nationalisation it wili Yet Mr. Maurer has been physical- vanish completely und so, too, may

a man's loyally to a rallway." ly attacked only once: "I side-stepped BWUNK harm- and the upper-cut lessly through the opening."

NANCY Coupla Phi Beta Kappa Pups

SLUGGO THINKS HIS DOG IS SMART---- WAIT'LL HE SEES MY PUP'S LATEST

TRICK

HHHHH

NANCY WILL BOIN UP WHEN SHE SEES.

TH', STUNT MY

POOCH CAN

DO

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Sidney Rodin

This depresses your Uncle because it sounds like war again. But it delights the P.L.W. This will show saboteurs that the pet Shimwell means business, though she wouldn't be surprised if some were prepared to risk £100 fine and, or, imprison- ment for the sake of bringing her Government down.

Potato: Not in Itself. But there was provocation, Mr. Poteto's whole, manner ggested that he thought

Snapdriver: And is it not? my name foolish and funny.

Cocklecarrot: We have been over all this, Mr. Snapdriver.

Snapdriver: M'lud, I shall call medical evidence to show that the twitch associated with the malady known, I belleve, as hay fever can- not be mistaken for the twitch of discourtesy,

+

Foteto: Aryone can, twitch his

Cocklecarrot: Nothing in It!. nostril. There's nothing in it. Then what the devil are we all here for?

(Silence,' Muffled laughter.

Cries of Tarara!!) -

What's £ 100 to them anyway? There is a sudden cry from the P.L.W.

She is looking out of the The core of the matter window and pointing dramatically to a light down the road. It is a porch light shining brilliantly along the garden path and obviously un-

necessary,

The P.L.W.'s fighting blood is up. She calls for a sweater and rubber boots and reaches for her wartime. bowler.

Your Uncle points out that the road is a sheet of tee; that i rub- ber boots she will only fall at on her nose; that she is not an appoint cd agent of the pet Shinwell, any- way.

But she has already struggled in- to the rubber boots, the sweater is. over her bead and she is half-way out of the front door when the porch light is switched off.

Somebody else has been listening lo the news. It is a great triumph for the pet Shinwell and his penal- ties.

17.

Snapdriver: In the case of Connie Armitage and the Wolverton Poper Mills versus Lord Coanesdrift, it was demonstrated that a hay-fever snceze blew a felt hat off an auctioneer's head at thirty paces.

Gooseboote: Baat

has nobody sneezed in this case,

Snapdriver:

A twitching nostril often precedes a sneeze.

Mr. Potato: I was too angry to sneeze.

you admit anger. surely

nobody

Good

Caz twitches

fun of it, his hay-fever.

ole for the mere fly in an attack of

Gooseboote: A clown might do it. Snapdriver: That would prove nothing, if the clown had hay-feyer, Gooseboote: If he hadn't, he still might.

-Cocklecarrot: Might what?

Snapdriver: Well may your lord- ship aski

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