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Cold Cure Is Not For The TT

Toronto. Dr. J. E. Gimby, Medical Officer of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where 2,000 of the 32,000 people had influenza, emptied the liquor stores and angored temperance societies by prescribing two teaspoons whisky, brandy or rum every hour on the hour.

Or

izz

of

AN EYE TO THE FUTURE

is the invention of a chemical com- NEW YORK; A New York store any and all American Industry in talking about It the best factor recently unveiled its designers' Idea

in improving relations between La- -of the sitting-room of the future. It

bour and Management 111 yeurd. should be called the looking-room, What it does-It takes advantage for it

Ionger planned 19

of the age-old American interest in place

[], to

talk

read,

interest In but a place to watch television: games" and the equal

pride free meals to interest worker in The set reif, becuples

ita economies. their company and .or place in the mort

Every lunchtime the worker

geis a Along the walls at right tant wall. angles to it are six theatrelike set of questions with his soup. Ench choirs, with

company and tables for drinks

question relides The and While

perfect score A them. ashtrays beside

management. the ita

gets the worker a show is on pere chairs, are turned for one qunel towards the television set After free lunch and the top score for

the werk the show is over they can be rolled

geis

week's free lunches. back against the walls to form two

As other factories adop! modernistic couches.

the system each super-quecher will be matched with his peers from

the prize will be tside. Then esh instead of food.

MECHANISED SLUMBER NEW YORK: A New York shop specialising alds to perfect sleep, announces a gadget la modernise one of the oldest cures for Jusomalu- an automatic sheep eminter.

NO DENTAL SERVICE? JOHANNESBURG; The perfeet fossilised tooth of a

man-ape whis lived half a million years ago has been found at Mukapan Caver in the Northern Trunsvital. It is twice the size of a modern human fristli and a patch of decay indicated that he flered from double-sized

toothache,

PARIS:

he

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Only one cloud sullied the humdrum

of Charles Bernerts, a 47-year-ukl carpenter who had lived for 30 years in Lille. He had 110 children. Then applied for a passport for Belgium and found he WHR down in the pulice, records as a trigamist, father of seven children, a deserter from the army and a thief several times convicted-ural officially rlead. It all dated from the day his klentity card was stolen. Police predict It will take several months straighten out the tangle, but Bernaerts has got his passport. SNOOKER EDUCATION

York's free NEW YORK: New schools are now going to teach their students snooker. They have dr cided that youngsters will snooker anyway, and that It is far better for them to play in tec

healthy

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to

THE LONG LIFE WASHINGTON: Philosopher Wai- whole ter Plikin, who reconciled a generation of Americans to enjoying their midilte oge with a book enlier! Life Begins at Forty had his 71st birthday recently, brate it.... He said, glumly, every day is the same to me.

He did not cele-

are

YOUTHFUL ENTERPRISE NEW YORK: Five teen-ngers who

business recently went into

have antonaced tit they

doing much better than some <if their elders. Six months after they start-

a hand lotion business in

New Jersey they

Informed their alock-

declaring a holders they were

30 percent dividend,

CAN'T BE CHEAP SALISBURY (Southern Rhodesia): Second-class, rheop-rate Empire alr travel impossible. Sir Milen Thomas, deputy chairman of British Overseas Airways, said here.

There is scope for some austerity- class seating with more passengers in each plane." he said. "But the MI. normal passenger wants fast,

safe Bil comfortable travel and to arrive fit."

lenra

surroundings of the school than in "dingy, smoitefilled, Commercial establishments where the sporty clement 1s saici to Rather."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1949.

MAN OVERBOARD

DAB and FLOUNDER -by Walter

SEDZONKERWAS BROVOLKE

M. Mauriac Explores A Scandal

THE UNKNOWN SEA. By Francois Mauriac. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 9s. 207 pages.

A

NOTHER scandal has broken out among the devout, grasping and wretched bourgeois families of Bordeaux, and admirers of Mauriac, with plea- surable shudders, prepare for another plunge into the abyss of Christian pessimism.

This time it is the Revolous who are overtaken by disaster. Oscar, the brilliant lawyer, commits suicide because bankruptcy is upon him, and his mistress, the actress, has run off with a younger man.

The action of the story is inunch- masquerade Jed with the abruptness of one of those thunderstorms which, mutter- ing over the sultry landscape, break

at last upon the vineyarda.

Luciennt, Oscar's wife. has scarcely Anished her toilet for the Fredy-Dupont ball when Mme. Cos- tadot arrives to break the news, and her children's to make certain thint

money in rescued from the ruins of the Revolou fortune.

na family. Virtues

feare for the children's interests, frankness, and so forth).

Finally, it is pily and not repul- slon that we feel for them. Even for Mme. Custadot. who finds has a conscience, She could hardly

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in love with Rose, flees to Paris, dis- Call of duty and beckoning of Rusted with his brother's betrayal adventure take them to the canal ind his mother's baseness. At last service and to the trip (with a cargo he seeks refuge In Africa.

of steel billets) which Enuma Smith describes this fresh narrative

Those people of Mauriac's are with its soft-tongued humour and its cursed with insight. They brush sharp-eyed observation.

aside the excuses for their bad deeds and

penetrate to the calculations them, too, tylag behind their good deeds. With Rach

uncomfortable lives, amidst problems of morals as well as pas- George Millar. slon, The Unknown Sea achieves a nombre magnificence.

12s. 6d. 408 pages.

You can see those canals. Smell

ISABEL AND THE SEA, By Heinemann,

NOT AT HOME. By Doris "UT of our way, capitalists!" shouted the rate barge-woman Cassell, 10s.

:

Langley Moore. Gd. 326 pages.

way

on the French canal.

How

vory imjust! Capitalist George Millor spent much of his will pretend that Not

time pounding away on his type- NOBODY

At Home opens a new epoch in writer in the cabin of the black English literature. It i however, keich Truant while Capitalist Isabel a well-constructed, well-presented

sick as soon as they and

was usually steadily. If in idly, amusing to sen. Not, surely, the

put comedy,

capitalists usually behave. she . Miss MneFarren paints flowers as

The Millars entered France at an occupation and collects

herbals Rouen

and emerged at Marselles. down 'the After that, they passed Italian coast, took ano alarmed Capri and fed with all glance at speed to the Isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and

by George Malcolm Thomson

anly

In passing, she mentions Oscar's uppene in a Mauriac novel without as a babby. Owing to the savage sung. offale with the actress."You can't one. tell me you didn't know!“

Among modern Writers nobedy excels Maurine for the understaml- Ing and charity-with which he explores the characters ol *those ageing, slekly matrons who have ar rived at a time of life when their private vices (preed, cruelty, etc.)

The Unknown Sen is, however, mainly concerned to show how the Revotou crash affects the younger generation,

persecution to which her class s They look many risks and be-. presently subjected, she must share haved, it is clear, with pluck her delightful home with R gusty well as skill. George exhibits him- woman named Mrs Bankes.

self, perhaps unconsciously, as a sort Mrs Bankes seems to be all right, of carlenture of the travelling Eng- Hose Revolou is abandoned by, as tenants go. But Mrs Bankes is lishman, her fance, Robert Costadot, because very far from being all right. How He Is Trascible: sometimes, down- through poverty and worit she loses is Miss MacFarren to get rid of right rude. In France, he tends to her looks. Pierre Costadot, secretly her?

be slightly pro-German; in Greece, One's compassion for the reluctant he has a good word to say for the fandlady is held within bounds by

British Thus have the Italians. two facts: Mas MacFarren could

always behaved to their allies. have given t month's notice, thus

Hanbel and the Sen deals with mis- bringing the book to an untimely adventures rather than adventures, with impressions rather than evenis. source of consolation. She drinks it might. with advantage. have hearty.

been pruned. AB elaborate and unprincipled plot is woven. Embroiled In it are Mrs Dankes's American husband and

DANIEL GEORGE GETS DOWN TO A NOVEL SET

IN LANCASHIRE, AND SAYS

A Champion Book, This

"CHAMPION ROAD"

By Frank Tilsley (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 12m. Gdŋ)

a writer he is no bobby dazzler, but his take-it-or-leave-it style urger the narrative forward with na un necessary nattering. (Seel you' can pick up the go on the way).

The

THE

THE sheer bulk of "Cham: pion Road" is against your mastering it by fits and starts, And there the risk that if you lay it down someone will earlier stages may be an

up-especially if

trouble with him,, on paper as in life, is that he doesn't know when to stop.

take it someone shire.

comes

Almost with shame

AUSTRALIA'S NAVY

Australia, SYDNEY:

expanding her navy, is likely in order from Britain a third aircraft carrier of a Jurger and faster new type. The Arst Australian aircraft carrier. Sydney, is expected to complete admit that I do not. flying training and sall frora England in April. The second, to be named Melbourne, is likely to be another 14,000-ton, 25-knot ship building at Harrow under the naine Majestic. She will be completed next year.

in

from

the Lanca

now, I must But i

Rever tire of reading about that estimable county.

The natives have denied them- selves the diflculty of dialect. For all the trouble their language_pave

might have been in Fleet street, that well of English....well,

me

ure

all the

nice-to-know; and cares for nobody, no, not he body but Nelly.

end. And Miss MacFarren has

Blm starlet named Maxine. Maxine time is beautiful and singularly

No- trammelled by morals. She would not just three seconds in a novel of M. Maurine's. Also, the mops up gin. on a scale that wil make short work of her beauty,

Nelly, his wife, has the courage, pride, and independence of common people who instinctively practice the principles extolled by moralists as merits and deprecated by "realists" as bourgeois or slave virtues.

However, it lasts long enough to do the job for Miss MacFarren,

pages.

fre

THOUGH the tule unfolded in the

MAIDENS' TRIP. By Emma old She distrusts Jonathan's money-Smith. Putnam. 8s. 6d. 208 there one.

few maklog propensities; she will have remarkably

no truck with his creases in it. From newspaper boy

spolls. Other women come into his life, and to commercial

magnate-we know

50 | TOMMA, Nanetle and Charlly out of it. Nelly abides. Between her three spirited and engaging bag- that graph.

and Jonathan the bond is unbreak- But Jonathan Briggs is no or-

able. Correction. dinary

He ta so close an approximation to that They have words they have mythical creature as to seem, in fle- always had words, high words-but tion, almost a freak.

none is needed when the easy money vanishes.

man.

་་

the

"Champion Road" is really, I can't

itchampion, help declaring because it is all about that sort of prople, and people of that sort are

than English rather

exclusively A gradiely book this, Lancashire. as broad as it is long. Aye, and a fair treat at that. Get weaving.

Growing up, he drifts into FOOD FOR THOUGHT

building trade, marries, goes off to NOT CO-OPERATIVE NEW YORK: A new word, qunch,

the 1814-18 war returns, dabbles in has entered the American language.

cotton shares, makes a tidy packet TORONTO: A bull let loose in ajof English.

Jonathan Brigs, the first-person (I And it looks as if

beg your

મ pardon-acquires the American chim shop at 11amilton, Ontario, worker before tons will be going as a publicity stunt, just gazed at spinner of the yarn, prided himself moderate fortune), extends his early In bricks and mortar. every noontime to qunch, Qunch, the crockery, But 425 worth of on being no worse than most folk, interest

and a sight better than some.

well-to-do As mingles with the a word marriage of quiz and lunch, lange was done by, spectators.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

~THATS NOT A

DOT, HONEY? IT

JUST MAKES YOU LOOK MORE

DIGNIFIED... AND PROSPEROUS, LOOKING?

"ANYWAY, YOU'RE -THE HAND-

SOMEST MAN I KNOW!"

"OF COURSE I DON'T MIND, DARLING YOU RUN ALONG

AND HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH THE BOYS.......I WANT

TO GET TO BED EARLY!"

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Anges: If you had to make the trip to Birmingham by canal, you could not wish for better company on that romantic voyage.

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Emma, the bossy one, likes to get covered to the elbows in black oll from the engine-room. Nanetle rich, plump and an optimist. Sha thinks that if she married an ex- plorer, she might be faithful to him. Charity keeps a cat called Cleopatra. She wins faine by being hit on the head by a canal bridge at Ave knots,

Finally, the

Millars reached the

A

Fracus and sold the Truant to British general. The trip had taken just five months. The book can be read in less time than that.

LIBRARY LIST

Arthur

Racunara's First Cru 1 page. Randome, Cape, 108, Re-laun. A yachting trip to the Baltic ducing the inter wat yezza, well takh.

*

Monkey Face. By Stephen op. bert Faber and Faber. Ha, dd. 232 pages. Bimbo, the young ape in the Belfast 200. Desing 10 imitato human speech,

And that words hava, mesninga.

What is to be done with. hin 7

*

The Midnight Reader, Edited by Philip Van Doren Stern. The Modles Head, 10. od 510 PARTS.

An admirablę collection of avickers, numbering among them classics in the art of playing on the nerves of the public.

Waller AT PAR

In Wales.

Bn. Dles, sa, od, ;

Most people know the charm of Mr. Wikimon's unique volumes of travel it sa the minority who must be persuaded to follow in the footsteps of this delightful VaKabomi.

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"The Perfect Wife'

BY KEMP STARRETT,

AND THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF PIE AND ICE CREAM, OR BOTH.

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SHE THINKS HE'S HANDSOME, NO MATTER. HOW OUT OF SHAPE HE'S BECOME (SHE SAYS

DID YOU SEE THIS AD?

BRACELETS FROM TWO HUNDRED;

TO SEVEN TROUSAND DOLLARS. ISUT THAT RIDICULOUS."

"OK, THATS

CHEAP

THE PERFECT WIFE TUNİKC

DIAMONDS AND SUCH ARE JUST SO MUCA JONK AND A -SHAMEFUL WASTE OF MOHLY,

"OH, NOI DON'T WANT TO GO OST ANYWHERE YOU JUST STAY NICE AND COMFORTABLE

AND I'LL

READ

ACCORDING TO SOME OF THE LADS THE PERFECT WIFE IS SOMETHING OF A GLAMOR GAL... HAS A NICE, FAT INCOME OF HER OWN, WHICH SHE NEVER MENTIONS EXCEPT TO OFFER. IT... LETS HIM OUT SOLO ANY TIME HE LIKES LAUGHS AT ALL HIS "JOKES" NO MATTER HOW OFTEN HE TELLS" EA-ETC.ETC.

·I BOUGHT SOCKA

AND CURTO OUT OF THE

AOCE HONEY

AND

Ledger Syndicale

THE PERFECT WIFE, ACCORDING TO SOME LADS, IS THE ONE VIO SERVES WALDORF MEALS EVERY DAY, IS NEVERTIRED WHEN YOU GET HOME... AND THE FOOD. BILLS NEVER GO HIGHER. THAN EIGHT BUCKS A WEEK.

HOME, HOME S ON THE RANGE ^

SHE STAYS KOME ALL DAY, EVERYDAY AND LOVES IT... AND KEEPS THE HOUSE AS CLEAN AS A RACING

FAN'S POCKETBOOK..

ACCORDING TO COME. HUSBANDS THE PERFECT VITE NEVER WANTE” TO GO OUT NIGHT BLESS' HE DOES,

SHE ALWAYS HIS CLEAU STRIC AND, SOCKS READY ARD WHEN THE STOCK GETT LOW-SILE TAKIS CARE OF THAT TOO.

POI NOVI DON'T NEED A THING TO BEAR, IVE MADE ALL MY OLD THINGS OVER.. YOU GET A NEW SUIT AND HAT AND

THINGS FOR YOURSELF.S

SHE CAN BALANCE HER CHECK-BOOK AND ALWAYS HAS A LARGER BALANCE TIAN SHE -ORVE EVER EXPECTED.