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Sitting

TELL, cor stuff me with little apples,"

"W

.ir

GAMP

Nye Bevan off to attend

RALEIGH

(Cripps exhorting the workers to

adventure and daring in leaping from job to job)

the birth of an Opposition argument with as much pain as possible.

on

by

w Fence

"if

said the Sweep,

that don't

weddiu cuke.”

"What do?"

tuke the

fuss about

M

NATHANIEL GUBRINS

penny

"Why, cor alone me sidewaya. After all this ere Russ'on 1inned crab They're alus of hot cocoa and mouthfuls Won't the poor deluded crea- n-goin to ship the whole perishin of processed-cheese sandwiches, tures ever see the light? The lot orf to Amerten."

puts another

on the cocoa and cheese sandwich- "Cor stone me sideways, too." price of intoxicants or tobacco, third-programme light?

or fails to devise any form of "Accordin to the papers," sald income-tax reller, then the fol-

in lowing will be the pattern the Sweep, "this ere crab

of wanted on the menus of the your Uncle Nat's life, austerity luxury hotels in New York, Cor world without end. strike light, you'd a-thought

Cards?

Unclo Your

hasn't Intelligence to enough

play curds, though he has enough to nvold gambling. 110 would rather spend his money thon let him have his money.

ste enough on their plates Cripps night No. 1 Cripps would

atrendy."

"You would an all."

"No wonder they add the Minis- try of Food police guardin It."

"No wonder."

"If it ad been for us I suppose the black market boys could are taken their pick first."

"Quite likely."

"But when it comes to scrapin up a few dollars it's a different matter."

"Too true,"

"Still, it's nice to know Ameri- can millionaires ain't goin short of nothink,"

"Very nice."

the

A Greek Wife Moves In

By WARREN SMITH

THE

HE boat train carrying the initial enquiry about recomme fifty Greek-born wives modation is the first news the to London is late. At the parents receive that their son

is trarried. platform barrier an, im- But the Balleys, I unfor- patient crowd stands wait- tunate about a house, ars lucky ingi The ex-soldier hus- in having a common language bands have a worried, far and share other's thoughts and in which they can communicate away look in their eyes and feelinga, for without a common are easy to pick out.

language foreign marriages may run the risk of breaking With, them

кооп are friends and

and up once the strat "glow" in over. parents-mothers waiting that first look at thele daughter soldier who marries

Sayn A SSAFA official:

foreign in-law and trying not to look air anxious, fathers cracking jokes. his thoughts with her

girl and can't speak and share "Don't get impatient,

properly con.

# Nor is altogether fair on the money to jingle in your pockets, country she is bound to rely on

cary girl, for

for living in' a strango and when you're with your wife it's always 'Brother,

"But no- you spare a dimer

You'll soon find that when is taking on a risky experiment.

you're by yourself

you have

can

her husband too much and is no liable in the pocess to subjugate

body takes any notice of father, entirely her own personality to

Standing well to the for is a her husband's" She quoted tall elderly man with a bowler case of a girl from the Ukraine hat and large blue paper who got to lonely for someone rosette in his button-hole, tak to talk to in her own language | ing no chances of bolng missed. that her husband appealed to SSAFA to find a suitable com- SUDDENLY A SHOUT paulou for her.

The

аге

But language is no problem THE train slcams in at last and if there is suficient will to get crowd crvep slowly over the dumculty. Take the down the platform searching the case of a London gunner and a compartments. Suddenly there Norwegian girl. We'll call is a shout and then a whole riot them Bill and Anna. Bill is of noise as the wives spot their a husbands. Tensed-up emotions likable Cockney with all the tough Independence of a Lon- playing in a drama which has melt. There

pears, hugs, doner who has lived in the lost all meaning.

kisses, laughter, children's tenements all his fe. He lives

confusion. An Lottle, who wanis to play sercams,

An old in two small rooms at the p with her mouse, howls

a baby of an ugly grey building right porter flnds like a cockney banshee throughout the last 20 dumped into his hands; In the centre of o

badly blitzed minutes.

mother-in-law wildly waving a London area. Anus comes photograph sees her new dough from a small Norwegian town. Well, thanks, Crippsy, for a ver. Neither can speak a word set lovely evening.

of each other's language but around by beautiful country. They met in Norway, fell in they laugh and point at the

lave, decided to get married.. argue about

Both spoke

only a few words

Cripps night No. 3 photograph

mouse,

and

ela, the mladassage,

of it all is on

of each other's language. Bill

tried to give her a picture of A H

no

carrying the THIS

is bookworm evening, excited brown-eyed girl. 1 Locked in

a room out of few months ago she was Diana the fe and the place she was range of the radio and Lottie Manta, daughter of an Athens coming to. When she arrived and her

your Uncle bank clerk.

burst Now she is Mrs and saw her home sho spends some delightful hours Diana

she had no of motor out crying. But Bailey, wife with a book entled "Lark Rise mechanic

Ronald Balley,

of me to get worried. Bl went to

Candleford." by Flora Sherborne, Dorset, an ex-RASC to work and she had to get Thompson,

down to the job of straight sergeant, who served in Ger-

a being

British many and Greece. Mrs Bailey

housewife. house wite. book has two The

special la so happy at seeing her hus- With the help of neighbours interests for him.

band again that when I go to and friends she soon mastered. First, it should MAIPPS evening No. 1 Isn't so Nobody would play draughts all professional writers. It will into my hand because I want was introducing small touches be read by talk to her she thrusts an orange things, and in a short while she bad, because in the initial or dominoes with him even if instruct even the best of them to thank someone." stages of self-denial there is he bad any draughts and

of Norway into her home and always the glow of virtue to domineen. So he is driven to forward story in simple, un citedly, has no doubts that st

in the art of telling a straight-

Mrs Bailey, standing there ex- in the meals she cooked. sustain the weak and sinful playing with his friend Lottle, affected English."

the devil crit.

will settle down. "I love my Second, it describes late nine husband very much and want to N her spare time she studied teenth-century life in Oxford-make him happy." she says, English hard and in ite after- shire and the Northamptonshire she says

and

so simply and border, where

your Uncle's with such feeling that you don't noons explored London. In father

grandfather, great doubt that she will be happy.

evenings she and A reader once sent Lottle a greater grandfathers were born. Mrs Bailey

grandfather, and any number of Mr Daily collects the luggage, husband got together and with wasting money, which, if hand- grey cloth mouse

a well-thumbed dictionary and soys goodbye to so life-like ed over to Saint Cripps in the that even some

Although the book mentions felends and they disappear up patience and understanding told. form of savings, might buy a bitten, flat-cared

of her hard only one Gubbins, " crabbed the platform for Sherborne and each other their stories of the lot of airliners which somebody take it for a real mouse;

friends mis- old woman in illac sunbonnet their new life.

Anna could build for a few millions,

and shawl who delivered thu letters," and was

Resh.

In such brief, exalted moments one can think with pity of the poor drink slaves in the taverns and clubs, talking nonsense to cach other and

and somebody else could throw Away for nothing.

*

*

IN DORSET

the

CLOSER TOGETHER

day. In a

her

In a few months was speaking and understand- ing enough to say most of the things they wanted to say. In to excited the sharing of their common Mrs Balley who

left problem they have been brought life of Athens for the closer together, probably, than peaceful little farming town the

average couple. Dorset?

WHAT happened

Tied to the end of a plece sour-faced and shed as of string, with your Uncle at the rest of the tribe, it brought the other end running up and Or, to think of it in another down the stairs, in and out of back to this Gubbins tales he

them the dining room way, instead of giving

had heard of his Uncle John the "I daresay you git tired of selves expensive, morning-after- this

and lounge, who kept the Rose and Crown cuuses Lottie

infinite at Chipping Warden. steaks and pork chops after a the-night-before headaches amusement, though it is Bme."

these pitiful drug addicts (isn't popular with other members of alcohol a habit-forming drug?)

"I daresap you do.”

not

"Nothink like a bit of crab to could buy, through the Minis.he family trying to read. Uckle up your appetite."

try of Health, a million bottles Anyway, Saint Cripps will be "Nothink."

of aspirin for a million

Mrs pleased to hear that it cost Smiths or Mrs Browns

who nothing..... at least no mo fancy they have headaches, but than a couple of smashed cups who could be cured by a little and a broken tea-pat. healthy exercise.

"Unless it's a Dover sole. ace they're tying them over-lo New York now in case the mil- Honaires git a bit peckish. Cor sufferin, archbishops. They'll be avin our snock next" "They will an all." "And welcome." "Nez arf."

+

"Though them there little old millionaires are too smart to ave anythink but the best. You wouldn't find belly worshippers entin snock."

"You certainly wouldn't." "All the

what are you same, n-grumblin at?"

"I aint a-prumblin,"

"I

see

sweets are comin ort the ration In April and then you can bot yourself_go."

[“That's right.”

to

the

If only these misguided crea- turen could be porsunded live the Cripps way (now

their Gubbins way) and find amusement in simple, inexpen give pleasures.

What pleasures?

★

simple,

Cripps night No. 2

☆

of

Sherborne,

It's too soon to say how the called on her five weeks later. thousands of

of "mixed" marriages and the answer was that she by British soldiers are going to was doing fine. Her English had work out.

gut. The soldier who, rapidly improved, and had (with

to over-susceptible aid of "Mum") mastered the

a friendly had a keen atmosphere abroad, Uncle John Gubbins

book and According to the tales, this

mist is taking on a risky himself as boxer, despite all last week costing seven shillings

money "we bought cucumbers position indeed. It is evidence to the contrary,

bad not a I suppose you would prefer business of marrying a foreigner The thing that

the aid ration

goes into

fancied sonse-of-the---valuo- of-English murrlage in a sort of

but

The

Every time there was a fair seven pints." She reckons her

is tied up heavily in red tape; at Banbury he would drive cost of living as the wife of at least that gives a man a

thon" there in his

her be the first to throw down that of an Army wife in Greece, He must have no illusions about pony and trap civilian in England higher than chance to sort his ideas out.

HE hired radio is back from

hospital, curse it.

Jis money to challenge the put the standard is better than hired professional.

It still mutters French to it- self through 11 programmes inexpensive and still blows loud raspberries

the

As your Uncle regarde unrestricted use of the radio as the greatest curse ever inflicted on man. he has never bought a radlo. though he has occas- slonally hired one as a conces- "Cor crikey, what with them sion to family. tastes.

"And buy yourself a bag of bull's eyes or a packet of nutty crunch.

"Thanks,"

and

in Greece.

that available to her own family the present diMculties of ind- She has quickly ing and setting up a home; he Although Uncle John got the made friends-her best friend is must be prepared to exercise a during, and at the end of, all most terrible batterings, he re-the daughter of the owner of her vast amount of fact, patience performances, liko

robust fused ง

to give up

husband's regular "local"--and and understanding; and he had while he

or better get cracking and learn could stand, and kept on going already is in love with the Dor- critic of the old school.

back for moro till he was set countryside. She admits she the girl's language.

- tho The Arst item switched on, middle-aged - and

young misses the sun of Greece,

ecce, thinks causing the maximum misery to professionals

refused hit the English worry over things all listeners, including Lottle, him.

writes more than the Greeks, the Grimethorpe Colliery

two letters a week home, and Band playing I Pagilace!

After each hiding he would saves a pound a week for the Procession of Bacchus,

drive back to Chipping Warden holiday the Baileys and lock himself up in the Greece. Mrs Balley has lesied In court that

unless he married her.

Not a very tactful cholce offer an unhappy clown the austerity wogen.

and

10

ODD FACTS

plan in A CHICAGO landlord pro-

to Rose Bnd Crown, where he settled down just as well In tenant refused to pay her

on would remain for days alone, Timbuctoo.

consoling himself with a glass or two of you know what.

a three apenny stale egg for On this particular night the

Later a play is tried out. your breakfast, you'll be avin, hired radio has been Laken The Arst half-hd is amusing. nearly arf as many calories as a away to have Its inside cured But after that your Uncle gets namby-pamby nephew, German miner, The skin or of frying noises. So your Un the ficigets. your nose,"

cle can't listen to the radio. thank heaven.

The skin orf yourn.”

Saint Cripps

As your

鄘

rent

A bartender at a night club recently

4 houss but thinks the chance of anked

But the Baileys have a prob- lem. They have no home, and Therefore more chame to his live at the moment with Mr In New York, Cliy

sitting Balley's parents. The parents received as a tip from one of at home meekly drinking tea,ing but it is not the same as door Cadillac cabriolet.

are very kind and understand-his regular customers a two- completely defeated by a milicing bul

For He begins to wonder what and water-cocon-and-cheese- having their own home, those unhappy, misguided drug sandwich-man.

mony

months now Mr Bailey When the English author of addicts in the taverns are say-

has had his name down for a a newly published book was ing. He knows what they are

by his American gelting onc

very #mall publisher what he would liko Worried, he says: "If I can't get as a present, he said a gallon of a place after a while, I am co-chocolate ice cream, which was ing to try to

a job in Greece put on a plane and delivered and settle there

to him. Not all mothers-in-law willing and happy to have the When: n home owner In refused to John's new daughter in their home. Danville, Blinois,

low Sons refuse to help and even move his house from the path

cases authorities sawed it in half., the marriage. In a few

Cripps night No.

WOR.

Books? Yes, there are plenty of books, but most of them havo been read, and in any case doing. Uncle Nat, like

your Uncle feels in a realicss A everybody else, will have mood this first Cripps evening. After an hour the audience to face the next Budget with-

at The Sea Nest begeCLE JOHN GUBBINS has out analgesin, he has gone into He can't help worrying about shush to each other or scowl strict training to withstand fur- his poor, weak-minded friends somebody coughs, One of Saint Crimps for Merrio ther shocks now being pre- wasting their subslerico (or them, your Uncle,

is getting England has lost.' pared for

long-suffering rather Cripps's substance) and hungry, too. people by misery-maker-in ruining their health in what

This evening Unele chicf. Sir Stafford Cripps. they believe to be the friendly,

If Saint Cripps, working far harmless atmosphere of the with no interval and no dinner tavern drinking a silent toast blame the Army for allowing of a new highway, the county intd the night, nourished by tavern.

A

NANCY

Who, Me?

NANCY SAID SHE'D MEET ME. HERE

AT TH' 200

200 HOURS

9-5

ना

I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHY THESE KIDS ARE STARIN”

AT ME

It is like sitting in a theatre nephew

is back in the

actors to his memory.

listening

Invisible jp

By Ernie Bushmiller

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