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THE HEADS OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1949.

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS.. BY DALI CUMMINGS

and he cure Salome” would be content with pune chut ***

that 'Divorce'

HEY Bald she was

Π

foot; the neighbours 11amous were

about it.

There

OR

the

When

she

kitchen table.

came home from the pic. tures, had been the note

IT and they'd be much better

apart

he was worry

but she would have no stíficulty about ging a divorce

And the had done nothing Sho about 1 Why should she?

zt

Was 1. na the still loved him. neighbours said, her selfishness” fr because she had aonde promise to him many years ago until death us do part, for bet- ter for worse "

Her mind chased itself nightly

with these proldesas, till tears wal boneliness brought exhaus- tion and sleep.

Then the unpossibile had hap. pened, what she was told could her eighteen months later, chas tened. Disagreements had come a ble mistress, between him is they had formerly sometimes wild between

never be. He had come back to

wife

The

husband

Pattern

12UT this time there had been marringe boud to hold tract: other Baronigh

Be troubles

Then

fridviny

understandings.

der the strakty

13oth were un- of pretending to

their friends that they were in

fael man and wife,

they neve

knew when someone might be

by their secret

Do

dangerous first

By Canon

London Express Barvice

crops

horizon of a married lile, it in the explosive point of a lengthy train of circumstances subcon- scloun, hardly definable, but de- structive.

This alone

should be enough

without

word

up

WHAT'S GOING ON

By EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

a change In top

EXPECT Unions

defence joba.

Montgomery, Chairman of the Commander-in-Chiefs' Committee, and de Tassigny, Commander-in-Chief.

Forces. will not

Land

have to

nurture their unensy fellow-

ship much longer.

For in January Lord Tedder. Elsenhower's deputy during the his job 05 WHT, hands over British Chief of Air Staff.

He would then be free to take Montgomery's pince, a post for which inny Americans, French- men, nad Britons consider him well qualified.

There is Transatlantic criti- rian of Montgomery's achieve- inenta Four Anvertean Ambas- sadors have made ports.

adverse re-

Launched

In 1948 Mr

Ufta Fox,

smali

bont designer, launched the first

of a line he called Fifteen.

a Flying

Now 7 sister bonta have been Fl The people of Cowes pre- sented one to the Duke of Edin- consultation with aburgh, Christened Coweslip, It If the reason for will be altipped to Malta next third person. the break is some deep-rooted | month. trouble, consultation is essential.

And the news of Cowellp has Take two typical examples.

to une am ahend. Next year there Here is Mrs A, driven dreperation beenuse

her bur-will be a class of Flying Fifteens band's love in ponderous,

to roce against the Duke.

un- and of the "taken-

to warn any couple against pre-mand. She longs for

cipitate action at such a time,

HUGH C. WARNER

Vicar of Epsom, and the would be unul, the neigh-

man

the who wroto Church of England booklet giving frank advice to those perty of the district. about to get married.

that spontaneous. light-heartext, enger wooing of their early mar. ried days.

She cannul explain it to him without so puzzling hure that he just "gives it up."

on

ران

For Mr Fox has sold several wels of pinas to yacht builders

Malla.

Lunched

had lunch Coweship's builder

the Duko at the Auest of Thursday Club last month,

un

This club was founded by n Jourantistic communittee who to meet at varying restaurante once a week; it was their habit to talk long over drinks, lunch lale.

Pride may so easily take con- trul. "All right, If that's the way marriage. about our you feel

That is the you can have it."

of childishness, un- pertness worthy of an adult.

The Informal friendship More likely. ast injured

the tennis court or dance-room wife or husband may feli

with a young man, Thr neighbour.

damage Hour

Mug "be viously attracted to her, Inay dn

cannot

she much happier 11. gets how

as over - rinphasised.

would be as the recipient of his delightful attentions. In her 10 secrecy bour, pledged

pathetic ignorance, she thinks the information path

she will succeed with him. now passed on

under similar pledges. 1

Or Mr B. He has never quilo

But, after the war, when "late pro- becomes the common

"no the disappointment of

often incant for lunch" Kol over being passed

an upstairs over in the office Junch," they chose When this has happened, for a junior colleague where an how hard it is for the erring important appointment was con-manent rendezvous.

cerned ber his or

The thought "I'm Affection cooled, the door to partner to change

mind the husband's old home-life re-

If relatives, top, become failure" is his inseparable com.

pattisti. mained open, and he returned to sharers of the secret, the "way be welcomed, with no recrimi bark" may be even more hard,

Becauso for emotions Arross the "In nations, by his wife,

dividing iltre both had suffered, their love inws"

which notoriously violent. Qunity only suffering sasinetimes

What then should Rive

Keep your mouth shut at such a That is a true story, some of crisis unul you can confide in a doctor, or mor- its lessons need a underlining. wise minister,

every similar tragedy, ringe guidance counsellor wille falk sil in the early lost story behind the

f

# Jew

At try

there was i

2

Whams postulality

(117)

(ED

even divorce, ot

Arst appears on the

NAREE

Some couples can their

multies

cup

you of

like tea?

a

Do you like a nice cup of

tea leaves for itself or any-

body else and sulks

10

fect

น

one

is wife IN absorbed in keeping the home spotless that are she is always in at him about his rigarette ash, his dishevelled

about lying

newspapers

do? place.

#et over themselves

nice

by Bernard

Wicksteed

scenery,

50pher

awako

wild

the

Another woman appears, Batters him, cajoles him, and gives him back his self-con-

dence. And off he goes,

N

The Solution

NOTICE that neither of these been tronbles could have

dealt with by the emuples olone, ;

room

al Wheeler's аз л per-

and and

There, every Thursday, about

drink stout 20 of them

sea food, champagne, eat

uger over their port

The Duke of Edinburgh went two years ago as guest of photo. grapher Baron, enjoyed his visit for so much that he applied membership.

he intro- Shortly afterwards duced cousin David, Marquis of Mitford Hayes: he too became member.

Untold story

SouthwardN from Venice,

For Mrs A to tell her husband through Florence, to Row, the

to be more spontaneous in his love-making would have scared bim.

trailed huliday- news cameras

Lowts

and Haking

Douglas family, churned out a series of

Sharman prints showing

with the Ear of Westmorland.

Meanwhile they ignored the on under real romance going

Dr their (109

another

But for a wise counsellor to unravel the root cause of the trouble,

fra

the suggest remedy-without his wife being told that the remedy suggested Loon's ambassadorial daugh- was to be--makes very dif ferent picture.

lers.

an Geril

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of

and next day your

Donna Luisa Gallaraiti-Scotti, He will take her out, share his eldest daughter of the Italian stolen jeaves have gone into

worries, bring ten? If so. you are

market-the black ten plans and ber What does the cunning plan- the tea

back from the office little sur Ambassador, has for two years most attractive just the person to read this ter do then? He pretends to be market, of course.

London. Tea, as you know, originally prises, and give her those tokens been one of the

girls in the and popular column, because I've been sorry for the miserable object

which were in India and of affection Instructs his pickers to

grew looking into this matter of and

In Milan recently she married leave it alone for a few months. China. There it lived a full und glory of their courting days.

Count Italian nobleman, tea.

But the moment the bush has happy life, unhampered by the teetotallers

Mr B. is no better placed. Ho arted of man. Several gleeful

back the its confidence wrote to me recently. They'd got

To cover themselves for their cannot go to his wife saying. starts again, column Whisky. whole business yend my

оп

From the shadows subsequent -treatment of the "Do try to think there is some pluck It is pluck me for and and wanted to thank

plant the Indians have invented good in me make a little more of me, and let the house go hang exposing the berndy of the pluck... 30 times a your.

mythical origin of tea,

During the war Mr Churchili members of distillers who obtain alcohol Don' you begin

They say there was a philo-occasionally." His wife would be

recommended all to keep appalled at his effrontery. from innocent grains of barley ashamed of yourselves, you tea

vowed who

his Government to read Leopold After confidence trick, drinkers?

World in Every cup you have

for seven years. by means of

She could be advised, how-Schwarzschild's "The Well,

bo 80 they needn't

represents the strivings for a

off his ever, what litic acts of appro-Trance," and bli drowsy,

cut amug, the teetotallers, because fortnight of a would-be tree, four years he began to feel n

ciation and admiration might do is re- It one plant works as hard as And that ten-drinking

awake. to help stay

Recently Schwarzschild, eyelids hve years mais ilraculously. the

east-off to help her husband. She could

poor reception sponsible for a form of botanical it can for

be told how relatively unimpor-bittered by the skulduddery 9 unkind as any only enough taa to All a 1lb. eyelids grew into plants with a

alert titant "house pride" is as an in- of his new book "The Red Prus- him packet. thing the distillers may do.

leaf that kept

gredient in a happy marriage,

sian." and depressed by a skin one seemed disease which no Did you know that every time

the end of his vigil. a cup of tea you you drank

able to cure, took poison, turned The Arst mention of tea in

on the gas tap in his New York were feasting on the crushed

Literature was by a 4th century

apartment, and waited for death. and withered hopes of a harm-

Kuo P'o, but named less plant whose

disillusion are Chinese there was nothing about it in Engilsh til 1598, when it was

this 60-year-old in the translation of

Friends inter- If left to itself the tea plant overgreens and belong to the described (Thea sinensis) would achieve camellia family. If they had a book by a Dutchman, named its ambition and grow into a their own way they'd like to Hugo Van Linschooten, tree 30ft, or 40ft. high. But live in a warm country where

fe is to become tree?

one aim in

BUSHES LIKE A WARM LAND

a beautiful MET a number of teu bushes when I was out in Ceylon earlier this year. They

leaves

rate.

arc

TOO GOOD, HE SAID, FOR THE POOR

The Warning

RITY-

FINALLY, word to those

who think they will be But pain and giving their partner happiness not over for member it is far more difficult rupted his suleide, and in hos by "releasing" him or her, He Jewish pacidet. to make a success of a second pital he was dragged back to

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No one took much notice of attempt. There are three rea- life. that wouldn't suit the cupidity they could grow lush leaves at Hugo until 12 years later, when sons

In

Book must wait of tha

planters. They a great

the first samples arrived

́(1) A sense of gullt Is car- wouldn't get enough

However, that sort of leaf Europe and proved that, in spite

tea, so of his name,

he wasn't line-ried over into the second, union,

Authoress Doris Leslie is dis- from a tree and they'd need a doesn't make the best

which may gnaw at the roots of appointed about the election de- ladder to get those there were the planters to the bushes up shootin'.

happiness in new surroundings. cision. the So from the age of about two Into

where mountains, the proud plant from the ultra-violet rays and cool winds

(2) A pocond union which

Her new book, a life of Queen Jungle is systematically pruned slow down the rate of growth

starts in an act of adultery pro-Anno's favourite Abigail Hill, till it grows into a stunted bush and improve the flavour.. instead of a graceful tree. From Naturally, an Industry like INCE, then various people Yes that the new partner cannot fled "That Enchantress," is then on, for 50 years perhaps, this appeals

tried to expose ten. in future be trusted to be chaste ready for the publishern to the baser in have

But, because of its political and. when There It lives a life of continual frus

a Lord President with a mutual friend. stincts planters in Ceylon first embark Forbes, who thought it (oo good

(3). The guilly partner meets slant it deals with a time when As fast as it grows leaves on their careers they are not for the poor, and wanted a the problems of his second mer- Whigs and Torles were at cach they are plucked to make some called learners or pupils but law passed making it available riage with the cheerless know other's throatsshe does not body a, cup of tea, ned very creepers.

to the upper clansen only. timo it tries

tration.

of

mar,

to grow a trunk Besides creepers, Industry, along comes a man with a knife and cuts it off

IT GIVES UP

attracts poachers. Tea poaching

WAR

Others who have held some already he has failed orice want to produce it before the

le quite a business in Ceylan, what similar views There are whole villages that John Wesley, the diving, almost live by it. On moon-

Have I pricked your con- light nights they encalt into

aclence? Well, remember

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Ledge

Includa

[]

ali

election.

closa She has tantalisingly So when the word divorce

contacts with the man who, for first mentioned-}} the door still open, if the way back this reason, controis the dato ot For Mr. Alfieo is under the clear than the pull of old naso her book's appearance, ciations, of children, of security regular supervision of clean-living once again, all Dealle's husband, nerve these may well prove irresistible, heart specialist De Fergussou

---(London' Express Service)'

of

Mas and

'IN DESPAIR”...." BOUT every two years the your piantallon, picking your those millions of bishes suffer

wretched plant begins to tea leaves by the sackful. give up in despair, tired of the When you try to chase them ing for your sake. unequal contest. It stops mak- they simply dissolve in the

-(London Express Service)

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