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How To Endure Women is the aubject of the ACTION today. Later on, if you are good, you may learn

column from this How To Endure Children and How To Endure Doga. But for now it will be women,

*

N that part of the world which is called civilised

, there are only three places where you can avold women- the club, the monastery, and the grave;

Even a bachelor, living in a bachelor flat, has to put up with the occasional visit of a char who comes to tidy up and hide everything he wants.

Therefore you must make the best of a woman-infested world during what H. G. Wells believed to be its last days.

WHEN I write "woman-infested"

on the

Fence

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

Although, by their oud behaviour, they have forfelted all rights, to pro- tective gallantry, they still expect it.

Having divested themselves of the traces peculiar to women they still feel entitled to the small services

which and courtcalca tributes to the charms some of them no longer posSUSY,

So

were once

what happening? | 7' you.

THEN there is the Bound

women's volees, shrill

*

of

and

1

$tool.

squeaky. The landlord stiffens little. You wriggle on your Your frienda stop taiking and look unensily at each other,

The little party is over,

the women are strangers

It is

it's

sou have

tell only to give up your sent and keep

set of

At one time evenings were for the entertainment I am not trying to suggest that aside

known 23 were They proportionately more there nre

women. world than there Ladies' Nights and you didn't mind, women in the were, say, 100 years ago. Probably for once, walling on them and put- it only seems there are more.

Ung yourself out to please them. This is because they are all over Now, as women

almost dominate

wherever it is the place instead of being in one or every social scene, two places to be found when, and 15, lald every night in a

ladies night. wanted.

And

every morning or afternoon Is They fill up the public houses; & ladles morning or afternoon. The result is that men who All up the hotel bars. They they clutter up the restaurants that were not members of clubs once for ren only; they tread all monks or dead men, spend most

hours fumbling ever you and hit you in the eye with their leisure

light

women's. their handbags in publle vehicles. matches 10

Owing to the shortage of petrol cigarettes, giving up sents to them. stringe women will ever insist on fussing over them and keeping the sharing a faxi with you that is, I conversation clean. you are getting on in years and don't look like a taxi wolf,

•

PEOPLE tell me they are all over

race meetings and dog tracks, They or whatever they are called. yell nt football players; they howl at the dirt track riders, and cereani at the fee hockey players,

When went to a cricket match last summer half the seats in front of my were full of old ladies noisily munching sandwiches and croaking

fieldsmen "butter Angers" to

who drapped catches.

arc or оге not

quiet.

If there are a few women and plenty of seats you have nothing to do but keep your mouth shut and listen.

But if the women are known to you and they bring in friends who are introduced, then it would better if you made some excuse and went home.

pen to you.

be

Otherwise this is what will hap-

You will rise from your stool and offer it to one of the women, even of if there are enough stools to for round.

And the result of this may be

breakdown among mass nervous

the men of this so-called civilisa-

tion.

In the pub

TERE you are with a couple of men friends drinkinut modestly and happily.

11

can't relieve you of the nervous an- xlely.

You are always on the watch to seo if they are doing the job oncl they are always on the watch to see if you are.

So you are like a lot of jacks-in- the-box jumping up and down and trying to listen to conversation un- the merciful landlord throws everybody out.

THE most irritating aspect of this

most unhappy business Is that the women know they have spolled your evening and are glad they have spoiled it.

If you can't be happy paying tribute (with matches and St Vitus's dance) to their benuty, charm and wit you have no right to be happy at all.

At a party

you rather expect to be a match- You

striking Jack-in-the-box at t party, however much you may re- sent it in n pub.

Homes and hotels were intențied for polite

social intercourse be- tween the sexes. Pubs were Two world wars have made then what they are today.

AL

not.

party you will And you are not only expected to light cigarettes

and jump up and down every time a woman jumps up and down,

feed You are also expected to them with sandwiches und little

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

"Of course, the Lords are outdated now-why they don't even get no salary,"

BY THE

WAY.

by Beachcomber

not

N view of the startling suc- cess of the nationalisation of the mines, why' blts of things on toast. At hotel nationalise schedules? Would parties they hire waiters to do it, not this make it easier to Stag- It is not considered polite to sit but women much prefer to see men

ger them? troys, In the presence of these wonderful guests running about with superior beings.

tripping over rugs and banging in If she accepts the seat, which she to each other. will do anyway, you can go and get This Is regarded

Bul

the moment another.

this tribute to their wit, woman rises, or any of her friends charm, though only women can see been appointed, and will report the

rise, you will have to rice too.

The women, having necepted drinks. will then fumble in their handbags for cigarettes. At half of them won't have any. you will be obliged to provide those also.

50

why.

To settle this matter, a Fact- Finding Committee (free travel, as a further free food, free clothes, free enter- and tainment, all expenses pald) has beauly

overall

facts 11 has Found not inter than August, 1950. Suct has Ruggested that in order

In order to study things on the

the Committee least ILE you are watching for un-spot,

should begin Wlisted carettes, watching

extensive good will to by making an

of the

Bahama see if any

Portugal, woman is standing, tour

South Africa and Chile. It it is watching to see if any sitting This didn't matter much at one woman is likely to stand, or going found that the time is not yet ripe for Nationalisation of Schedules, The landlord in leaning over the time, but with the present price of out of the room no that

you can is cigarettes it becomes a burden even open the door for her; or while you the Staggering will at once be put

o force, beginning with counter joining In the talk.

easy to the most generous of men.

are watching to see if any woman's

zo...al priority personnel. not very clever talk, but it is and full of laughter. You hand As it is an accepted thing that glass is empty, or any woman wants or glass, round cigarettes

to when your

turn women arc too weak to strike put down an empty comes, the saine as you buy a half

never have stub out a cigarette, or even while Cary Grant as Rubens Slavish imitators of men.

see if any plut round when your turn comes.

watching to If they you are even play all the gates Invented by men,

You are not obliged to light any were strong enough to strike them, woman's jaws have stopped work- HOLLYWOOD is growing weary of films about great car posers ing on a sandwich so that you can trousers, drink their body's cigarette, but you do if you you can now resign yourself to they wear their whisky and smoke their cigarettes,

strike a match to light evening of happen to

watching the ends of leap for a fray to get her another, and musicians, parily because you Sand beautiful gentle your own. Now one of the

You can sit on a stool cigarettes to see if they are lighted, you are niso expected to know all always love to have George chair without feeling obliged or have gone out, and leaping to about the world situation and dis-in them. It is to be painters now. creatures is fighting bulls.

But George Sand can't be flung off Nobody would mind any of these to jump up for anybody,

your feet every two or three cuss it intelligently. . You are ni

You are редсе things very much if wamen didn't

re- minutes with a match in your hand. sul insist

You are supposed to know what see her with Alan Ladd as Walteau, on being regarded að laxed. The cares of the day

Maybe your friends with share these dutles with you, but

Stalin is up to, why Vyshinsky is so or with Gary Cooper as Reynolds. they something special.

Presi-Have Madorm Sunand

and

I

women

or

forgotten.

Are

of

matches, and any

would

their own

It's Blackmail!

LONDON.

AM sick to death of the word "kroner." I have had the two months listening to Danes telling me what is wrong with Britain, why I am a black-

says.

VINCENT EVANS

FEW years hence

told the food officer that my ration eards had expired a couple of days earlier. Could I have them renew- cd?

He was very sorry, but I couldn't

as easily as the 1. I I would like

to

rule everybody, what dent Truman thinks about it, who Mr Alice is going to fire next.

come in ""La, now, Josh, mong share "Gee, my lady, I vow and pertest yew look well......"

If you say, quite truthfully, that

you don't know any thing about Why not freeze the pool?

these matters at all, you are either regarded as a boor or as a spy in the pay of a foreign Government

therefore afraid to talk.

S women are also incapable of or may not be included in

getting cabs. of looking

HE announcement that a miscal-

culation has esulted in the mis- kying of £35, 0,000 in the con- vertibility pool prompts me to ask whether the famous 79,000,000 dol- that sum, whatever it was earmarked for, if earmarked it was, or not. It Brital They had run out of ratlon cards, trahy, and knowing when the last is all very well to talk of four would have recovered from her and I would have to come back ibus leaves, quite apart from being 1000 worth of goods from the

matches holiday with pay. Would two days'-time, when he hope to too weak to strike mailer, and how wicked it is of two years blime us if we gave have some more. Bul how, I pro- apen doors, it is your job to run out accruing

-and-tie," "but what do they represent in

credits and drafts Mr Strachey not to pay the Denmark then

most assistance to those countries tested, was 1 to go on in the mean- into the night and watch for cabs, sterling debts? Forgive me for prices they are asking us for who had helped us? Would Den- time? "Oh, he replied, "you will your job to telephone the station, speaking bluntly, but I simply don't their dairy produce.

mark, having lost the British mar- get along all right"|

yours to know by telepathy about believe it. If the

pool

is pre- kel on which she refles, then blame

maturelý - frozen, we shall be skat- And so Indeed I did, Yes, the

Joyable evening.

And I hope you have had an en- ing on very thin money. for our food?

Fantastic prices, Mr. Strachey call ed them. And I agree with him. They are prices we would pay in

us if we had turned to the Empire Danes are doing very nicely indeed.

That,

I was told, was blackmail. But where is the real. blackmail?

The Warning

Danes that

the 'busca,

Seascape

on

Dali's picture shows a horse and SEE now that I haven't told you ve elephants all walking on

silita how to endure women after all and carrying a nude on a their prices may result in their

pedestal, But if I. G. Wells was right you and a temple with a body bulging

endure them much out of the entrance. longer. That's the only consola-

At 2.30, 5.10, the black market. Britain must pay us these prices. I was told, or the Danes will have to find markets The Danes and other people-are WHEN you tell the

telling us this: "We know you have elsewhere.

fought a war, and we know

losing the British market they say you When I had listened I told the have no money. But we know, too, blandly, "But the British

Empire won't have to "Danes this: that, for six years, that if you go to the moneylenders, will never beat us at our own game."

Britain had fought a war which had they will lend it to you, and then But there are, in fact, three points tion I can offer.

(o killed and malmed many thousands you can pay us. The Danes hope to which the. Danes are going of young inen, cost millions of that our desperation will be great have to pay a lot of attention pretty pounds a day, and smashed our enough to make us pay their prices. soon, or they will be beaten at their homes and factories.

own game. They are these:... Would you call that blackmail? I told the Danes quite bluntly that I thought it was.

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SPOTTED BUTTERFLY"

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蝴

A CHINESE PICTURE

LOVE

The Debt

the

war.

I'RODUCTION COSTS: These have gone leaping up since the Farm men's wages have risen from £2 10s, to £6 108, a week and quite rightly in a skilled indus- try on which a country depends.

COMPETITION: Competition inf

TOLD them, too. that all those One of the main reasons why two countries which had come normally friendly people are now through the war pretty well un slanging coch other is that scathed, and which were now try- Danes are quite hopelessly misin Ing to hitch themselves into a sent formed about conditions. For on the freedom bandwagon which instance, one evening while I was Denmark has been kicked slap they missed in 1940, had a debt of falking at Aarhus University, an info the sea by the big co-opera- honour to Britain..

oficially sponsored British lecturer tivés. Farmers have little incentive In another part of the town was teil- to cut their prices.

that the Dancs

British

FEEDING-STUFFS: The Danes complain that they are having ..to pay expensive dollars for feeding- stuffs which they used to get from us. Quite true, but they also throw away the green, beet tops, mako Ane feeding stuffs.

Yes, yes, said the Danes, that is all ing the truc. We are grateful for the war man-in-the-street was mystified why Q you fought. But your argument to we could not pay the prices the sentimental. It is not based on Danes were asking. economies. You cannot asseES A moral obligation in kroner. 50 And Danish men and women, fed what do they do? They turn round on the comparative plenty of our and offer us butter at is, a lb. more hotels, are now going back to Den- than they pay in their own homes. mark with stories that there is no food shortage in Britain. And yet, with cheese, milk, and CKGS un rationed, and a formality at ration- ing on meat, they will tell you much about, their own privations.

And why do the Dones call me blackmailer? Because I told them this: You are asking Drialn to pay you prices we cannot afford, and which, in any case, are for higher than those that Australia and New Zealand are asking.

But this will tell you how serious these "privations" really are: I went Into the Food Offee at Slagelse and

A Brilliant Idea on Tap

NANCY

OUCH

ONE SPIGOT IS ALWAYS

TOO HOT AND THE

OTHER TOO

COLO

which

mc

The Danes will probably tell that their grandmother already knows how to suck eggs. My only comment is that I am delighted to note that, as a result of the recent agreement, we in Bellain will have a few million

more

chances of learning, the arl.

I THINK

the

(Morning paper).

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