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Should a young wife be practical

A

about money matters?

F course I'm practical about money matters

I have to bel. I may not understand high finance, but I am the one who must budget the home It's my job to stretch the dollars expenditures. to feed and clothe a growing family.

"That is why I look upon my husband's Life Insurance as a joint responsibility-his and mine, If I should over lose him, it is the childron and I who would suiter without an income to replace his earnings.

"So we plan our Life Insurance together to provide an income that we agree would be necessary for me in case of need.. His responsibility is to earn money. . mine is to see that some of it is made available to meet the promiums as they fall duo.

"If I had not been willing to play my part, my husband would have found it

impossible

provide

the

to financial protection that our family needs."

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The Novelist's Dilemma

JTY the brave young novo- list. He sits down this morning to a blank sheet. He is anxious to cover it with words which will serve his am- bition and your plea- sure, He has talent and imagination. What on carth shall he write about?

Down: 1. Condiment; 2, Brimstono;

3, Advanced; $, Pretender; 5; Parietal; 7, Vertebra; U, Erc; 10, Tests; 12, Baron; 14, Italis

0

OKS

K

I ho follows the age- old

and writes recipe about himself, he cannot keep war out, unless he spent his youth at the

to

Let

D

JOHN PUDNEY

SAYS...

HE HAS MY SYMPATHY

bombardment, which is seen by an elegant character who has

Just tidfed his hair with a gold comb. flying in an airplane at about 40.300 foot.

"Below lay the mytilated city, fat whorls of smoke, like shreds of brains in brown butter, emerg- ing from the split skulls of the big buildings, the houses wildt their eyes scooped out by the in- vlalble

spoons of the bombs. and there in the empty shell of one of those gaping orbits, the remnant of a bed stuck at a crazy angle as though the pupils of the buildings had contained carbon skeletons."

I hope that my Valletta friends, who nover suffered

single in

THE HILLS REMAIN. by Though this is no war book; Mr Nicolas Powell. (Bodloy Head,

Powell's description of an unherole naval action in the Mediterranean is 78. 6d.)

The light one of the highlights. TERE

Here La a first novel by oon of but terrifying bombardment of the Not about war: we have HER

itself township 10 also expertly done. had enough of that. How, them. During the war. I under-

But it is the small affairs of small though, can ho creato stand. Mr Powell was a prisoner convincing characters un- who escaped in Italy. He does people which stick in the memory.

publishers blushingly a- touched by one if not both not write about himself, about his

nounce this author as "promising." WAKE?

mental or physical adventures, or

I would say that he has "arrived." about war. He welds these elements

He knows what to put in and, above into

romantic story about an

all, what to leave out. Italian mountain township.

His characters are the people of the Abruzzi, whom he knows at fir hand. His hero works in a chemlat's shop. His coun

country sweetheart is a

with creature

venomous simple

Sho ambitions.

falls for

for a captain of the police, clopes with a small- ens Into time Fascist bigwig, and creeps the happy

rother ahcopishly. The Then let him pause to gossip with the milkman. Quite casually the dark, sombre, sturdy people is Fas-

revolution, and war. It Is milkman mentions what happened to

tragle background, him in Syria, Poland or China. It

but the people the is more blood-curdling than

Their human,

tragl-comic. story our hero has begun to writ

aquaild and their idealistic affairs If he is resolute man, he will are drawn firmly, vividly. Note not tear it up. His talent will make this descriptive flash of the little the milkman's present daily round Fascis!:

was "Toni Tagliacozzo more interesting than the milkman's true adventures in Syria, Poland or those men who are incapable of China. Arc

there

or watching on many brave reading a novel

without young novelists like this? I believe entertainment

Imagining themselves as the here,"

North Pole. Is write adventure? bim tax his imagination and cover his page with blood-curdling and Improbable

nction.

there are.

wrile.

.are

0

THE MAN FOR THE 10B, by cendiary recognise the scene? Cyril Falls. (Methuen, 98. Gd.) which THIS is the sort of book

most people who worked in the

In wartime Bald

e Ministries would write afterwards, Mr Cyril

Falls, who was military correspon- professor of the History of War at Oxford does it better than most,

I will not labour the unreal neo- romantic nature of this surfeit of writing. I would rather stress the

in It. It is rich squalor, an elegant squalor of the characters who drown society of lay figures, a gilded scum, too, too full of sensibilities and too, too sadly caught in the destinies of Europe.

hark of this story of dent of the Times and is now

OUOTES

from Winston Churchill", less famous sayings:

No one is compelled to serve great causes unless has feels i for it, but nothing is more certain than that you cannot take the lead in great cnuses as a half-timer.

a

One of

It is a fine thing to be honest, I had no idea in those days of but it is also very important to be the enormous and unquestionably right.

helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great people.

Although always prepared for martyrdom I preferred that it should be postponed.

get better by Things do not being left alone. Unless they are adjusted they explode with a shat- tering detonation,

• Don't give your zon money. As for as you can afford it, plve him

horses.

а

DUMB-RELLS

REGISTERED USI

DID YOUR WATCH STOP WHEN YOU DROPPED IT ON THE

ICE?

PATENT OFFICE

NO, IT WENT

RIGHT THROUGH

• MCKENNEY

ON BRIDGE

Declarer, Holding Less Trumps, Wins

CRÍTIC John Pudney wrote the official aregunt"The Air Battle of Malta," His young hero enters the Ministry of Armament and Supply. With the

IRREGULAR ADVENTURE, aid of one of those female adven- turers who leave Kensington and the by Christie Lawrence (Faber, shires in a relentless hunt for self- 10s. Gd.), and TWENTY EAST importance this young man becomes OF GREENWICH, by John By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY. Somebody,

Lodwick. (Heinemann, 8s. Gd.) IIILE no woman player on the

W Pacific coast has broken

This success story glves Mr Foils an opportunity for ack portraits of some nearly familiar figures in the all-too-famillar past.

two

old

Into BRACKET these two adventure tales beenuse they raise an age-

the Life Masters' list as yet, I bo- lleve that the eastern players who letters. problem of

Can the writer express his own experiences will attend the regional tournament at Coronado, Cofit, will meet several best as fact or as fiction?

Both books are about Yugoslavia.bre with the eastern women cham-

woman players there of equal

call-

etc.).

роля. During the war years, these women did not get an opportunity to participate in our major tourna- Master Points was restricted.

One of the strong woman players the Pacific coast is Mary Jane had an Interesting

who wiltler, makes his English hero serve with

the same people.

These Arc first-rate books. I

amused myself

clusions.

with some

con-

reticent about (1) Fiction is less

love: Truth more specific.

(2) Truth abhors the happy ending.

Lawrence finishes

in

Kauder.

There is the Minister, the resound- ing Mr. Peppercorn, "uctuated by predominant motives, a Inud- able ambition-entailing a love of Both are by young men who served real possess not there and who also publicity

which thenge did

Lawrence tells the consider dishonouraple-and

writing talent. intense disille of his colleague in when he lived and fought with the ments, and thus their winning of

amazing adventures in true story of the Ministry of Sustenance."

Chetniks. It is a funny, sometimes witty first novel written by an exper}- Lodwick, covering the same ter-

Nish, enced hand. It would have seemed ritory (Mitrovitsa,

funnier and even much about two years ago.

PRELUDE TO A CERTAIN MIDNIGHT, by Gerald Kersh (Helnémann, 8s. 6d.) Elderly people and those in If I had my way I would write the word "insure" over the door of authority cannot always be relied E prolific and skilful story

THE

teller Mr. Kersh sidesteps war. every collage, and upon the blotting upon to take enlightened and com- book of every public man, because prehending views of what they call In this full length novel his softing is a thin slice of Bohemla between

we have only I um convinced that by sacrifices. the indiscretions of youth.

blurb to tell that he has now which are inconceivably small, which I can never doubt which is the the wars.

The characters are more drab, gone up to Oxford. Fiction leaves are all within the power of the very right end of the telegraph wire to

Lodwick's us in no such doubt. poorest

work, be at. It is better to be making the more dreary, more picturesque thuri poores

hero Ilves in Bayswater with his those inhabiting Mr. Falis's wartime secured familles

be

against news than taking it.

ex-guerilla heroine wife. of passing Ministry. They are indeed lurid ns no intention catastrophes which otherwise would I have

Mr. Kersh can make my remaining years in explaining only

them. (3) Truth is stranger than Fiction. smash them up for ever.

I have I know the people he and or

• We shape

means, but our dwellings,

withdrawing anything afterwards our dwellings shape us. said in the past, stili less in apolo- I have never had the luck to see them in quite the primary colours I was happy as a child with my gising for it. toys in my nursery. I have been I found I could add nearly two that he has. happier every year since I became a hours to my working day by going But this Interlude of to bed for an hour after luncheon, school makes a sombre grey patch

Mazima & Reflections of Winston on the chart of my journey,

Churchill: Selected by Colin Coote Batchelor, Eure and Denzil Spottiswoode, 9s.

mnn.

In regulat man can

Life is a whole, and luck is a whole, and no part of them, can be separated from the rest.

•

FROM HERE AND THERE:

Planes Versus Locusts

The story centres in one of those unpleasant murders and Mr. Kersh deals with the incident expertly and faithfully,

I

His story moves fast and forcibly. recommend it but not to the squeamish.

HIDDEN FACES, by Salvador Dali. (Nicholson and Watson, 10s. 6d.)

MALVADOR DALI that great draughtsman, stands head-and- shoulders above the dead-beats of the surrealist movement which he U.S. dollars.

did so much to create, You-

may land, overall plan to save Buenos Aires, Argentine

on are going

at recall that he honoured 100 Investigations with air forces, and Buvai

to develop paper the

goy 'thirties by

live making planes, including -Junkers 52 and the same time.

finishing processes to make it pos- speech clad in concentrated on

years sible for Canada to export a high the approach of the helicopters, have

than ho found his metler to be During the first

London in

diving_suit.......With.

日

wor

115

the Paraguayan frontler in the big" degree of finished paper rather dressing the windows of New York

Canada shops, Now comes this novel to

Much of it is about us Europeans,

gest anti-locust offensive aiming at raw wood pulp.

An Air seven months of this year complele extermination. Ministry spokesman stated that Bri- exported to the United States alone tell us that he had not forgotten us $125,800,000 (£31,000,000) worth of tain's and the world's food is en- raw wood pulp, and Imported during and the war we had here. This is dangered.

the first half of the year from the his long-range view of Malla after United States raw cotton and cotton fabrics worth $71,000,000 (£10,000- 000).

WEATHER BLESSING Ottawa: Crnada has had the warmest autumn for half a century. Temperatures in most parts of the country were around the seventies following early snowfalls in many places... The warm weather is help- to complete ing Western farmers harvesting operations before the onset of winter.

ADVENTURESS

Johannesburg-Patricia Sidgwick, tali, pretty 25-year-old Channel Isles girl, is on her way back to her an horseback. home in Guernsey

for six months After working receptionist

at an East Griqualand hotel, she set of overland with two horses and a

is now mak- a dog, and ing good progress on the first 1,200 mile lap to Salisbury, Rhodesia. She Ottawa: Scientists here and at plans lo ride 30 or 40 miles a day; McGill University, Montreal, are in- willi stops every fifth day to rest vestigating the possibility of substitu- the horses. At night she will sleep tion of wood pulp' for raw cotton In farm homesteads but, if she must, In the manufacture of several she la prepared to sleep under the types of textiles

as part of

Wooden Bresses?

[

an sky.

Rupert and the Big Bang-

NANCY He Would!

Although Algy has spoken quietly. the master turns and comes over to the little group."I heard what you said and I'm surprised at you." hẹ says solemnly Bingo is very clever and is learning science, which is very difficult, Instead of being jealous of him. I wish you would all ry to help him." Rupen and his gala bang. their heads and look ashamed, as the master walks away. "I don't quite understafd what he means," whispers Rupert. "What is science?"

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PLASTIC WOOD

FOR ALL WOOD

·REPAIRING

PListe

PLATTH PLASI

Gestapo

cell, chalged, with the

the lights out: a publisher's

and we

CHESS PROBLEM

by W. JORGENSEN Black, 7 pieces.

12:

White. I oleces

White to play and mate'in $100.

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1, B-RT. I. QK1B:1

SkeletonR

CLUES ACROSS

1. Btrike tonta and steal Milently

awar?

3. As a mark of esteem you

may have Any card from Len to

ACD inclu-

Kive.

B. The

hapu of egg Dr. 1010

11 Lerm

9. Buch

ctus-

toms aro dia crimin- Ating with us around.

DETA

11. spoke.

haps, but

Fal tothing. 13. I often

honourable, though notin me, possibly.

16. Combination of Frenchy and English articles in a workahop. 17. Though the conditions may be thin. I give out, it noting. 18. As to the regiment, it has soine.

unexpected setbacks.

10. Bluebags,

them.

by the sound of

20. Finally beaten,

71. Produce an affect, though the

start may be comic.

25. The chapazon in timed to arrivo

before the girl returns.

20. If you take mine, you'll make

an end of bad. habits.

27. Pitchpine would seal to be

sultable for this pale

28. Unamuleyous form of credit

20. Cock bird it would seem.,

CLUES DOWN

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described.

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Mrs. Kauder

A 954

KQ 13, KQJI 404

Bouth

Tournament---E-W val.

West Poss Pass 14

North

Bast

20 24 4.

3A

Pass

Fass

Pass

Puss

Pats Double Pass

Opening K

8

situation to handle in today's hand. When West held the first "trick, he felt quite certain of defeating the contract. After all, he could count that declarer had only four trumps. and he had five. He shifted to a diamond, which Mrs Kauder (South) won with the ten.

Then she cashed the king and ure of clubs in dummy and led the queen of clubs. When East showed out, Mra Kauder discarded

a spade from her own hand. The fourth club was led and ruffed with the jack of diamonds. Now when Mrs Kauder led the queen of hearts, Weat was frozen out of his diamond trick, as he had to under-ruff_declarer's king and queen of diamonds, and be over- ruffed by dummy's ace or eight of

diamonds.

Crossword

2. "Reel in catch" janag.).

4. Bob's inatda, Edgar Allan aut aldo: that the position. 4. Clasp for a single drawer ? 5. Principal character in "The

`Itoanry."

6. Even a Dickens character was

dhantiafed with his rationa? (two words).

7. If you're very bright you

should get the right answer, 10. This essayist's first name is.

alph, but the finishes with Duly.

12. And i ado inside a cordial pro-

'ducer.

14. Mainly a superior sort of nor Ron and entirely magnificent. 13. It means below, but might ba

The in.

22. You may find thự Hitla' cap-

tain Agreement

23. She's rem

M. Bitterswire.

THE block

clu

quires numbers, as well as the words, have to be filed in by voters of this crossword, Four black squares and tour clue numbers have bren inserted to give you a start.

As the pattern of black square» is armmetrical, the left and right. hand sides balance and the rop nad bottom falves COTTERKUND. You can, therefore, 131 in 12 more black squarce at once in positions corresponding with those given.

Since nu words of two felter» ure-used, except in phrases, the Mitulares you have already backed In will show that 27 Arross und the corresponding ward in the log half must each he of five fetters, 11 WIE BI be seen that I und & - Across, and 28 nod 29 Arrass, ritt

beix-letter words.

to 13

The corresponding clue Aera Blust be 21 Across,

Reasoning in this way you can construct much of the pattern before you solve the clues.

LAST WEEKS SOLITION

By Ernie Bushmiller

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USE

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