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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950,

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RHONDA

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GARY GRAY

"BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE” Co-Starring: MARGARET LEIGHTON

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COBDEN

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TORY PRINCIPLES

ly

Woolton

BRIGHT

"WHAT LIBERALS COULD RESIST ́US NOW

World Coppright. By arrangement with Dotty Hornia.

Sitting

"My father and moler

not believe in discussing sex, 10

I did not know the facia of life

I was nearly rty-five"

on

by

* Fence....

a woman writing to an cuttur.

wise,

1 THIEN

thirty-two

Was

only

My mother, old and

Said "Never ask no ques- tions "And you'll never hear no lies."

I never knew why birdies sang

So joyful in the spring Or why the pussies in our yard Would fight like anything.

When I was only thirty-three

I said to ded and mum

"I think I'm old enough to

know

How in this world I come." I've never seen my dad so

cross

Or mother blush so hot "A stork flew in one night,”

they caid

"And popped you in your

cot."

When I was only thirty-four

The milkman looked to

queer

I told him all about the stork And how it brought me here,

He said, "My girl, you know.

too much,"

And gave me quite a push "One day," he said, "I'll put

you wice About the gooseberry bush," And now I'm nearly thirty-

Ave

I know, I know it li

I know if storks did fly with

They'd only let us fall. I know now that the goose-

berry bush.

Was just the milkman's

rak..

I know the doctor brings us in

is le Gladstong bag.

Bigger and bigger

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

no more war, so we did, though there's been more talk about war since 1945 than any time I can remember.

In the armchair by the fire we ad to vote for unanity and a little old centenarion, frail and white, will be crouching un- noticed in the thunder of con- versation, the champing of giant jaws and the rattle of crockery. A great-grand-daughter is enter tairing a friend;-

More eff on your stenk, Bertha?

Just half a dozen. They make me a bit muscle bound.

You'll soon work it off at the tree felling. How's your hus- band?

Dead, I think.

Rolled on him in the night? Yes.

husband You're

Careless my foot.

It's like having a pekinese in the bed. shall keep the next one in a

That's the second you've killed that way. getting careless.

kennel,

Good idea. Care to sit down for a smoke before you tackle that oak tree?

Thanks, say where's your great-grandfather?

I don't know. I let him out last night.

Not een him since? No, told him to stay out. They're an awful nuisance at that age, crawling and whiningg about the place and getting under your feet.

the

Cripps is a saint, and sometimes she thinks he's bulmy.

WHAT'S GOING ON

by EPHRAIM HardCASTLE

ROM

LONDON. CANADA comes the news that £32,400, presented anonymous to Montreal's McGill

In 1920 she claimed £7 17th Od. from the Petersfield Rural District Council,

was the

This, she explained, "estimated cost of keeping six visitors for four days in excess of

a result of

Eniversity, was the gift of their Invitation" as

the counell's failure to clear Mr James Stuart Douglas, mow-bound ronds. father of America's London Arlon in 1949 Ambassador Lewis Douglas,

What £1

fine family is this! What a record it has of adventure, courage, and generosity!

Do you remember Michael Arlen, best seller of the twenties? In delicate prose he wove Indellente stories of lovely Indles and exquisite men-about-

Peter

town.

Where is

ke now?

Consider the story. In 1820 Lewis's great- Cheyney reports meeting him in grandfather, an Edinburgh New York's fashionable "Twenty

One" Club. doctor, went to Canada and became a leading surgeon and medical reformer.

His son took a theological degree at Edinburgh and was admitted into the Scot- tish Ministry.

But he went back to Canada, and set out on a life of high adventure, prospect- ing in the Wild West. Mining in Arizona mile him a fortune.

His son, Lewis's father, be- came an American citizen after he fell in love with a girl whose father forbade her to marry a foreigner.

wraith from

the

He says that Arlen has become a living prototype of one of his own characters Shim, perfectly dressed, charming in voice and York like a manner, he moves through New London of long ago.

As he left Cheyney he bowed low over the hand of the lady present. "Your servant, ma'am," he said.

The Judge Wins

ONGRATULATIONS to Mr Justice Birkett: he is making a fine recovery from a dangerous operation.

What

great man he is. Illa war record was magnificent. Abandoning his practice at the Bar, worth £15,000-£20,000 a year, he made arduous journeys about to tell other countries But 11 years ago he turned Canadian again. Tie-died-in-Britain in war.

Jace January,

And he worked hard-even Stuart Douglas had after his appointment ng a-judgo -as chairman of the commilteo expandedle family mining in- terests, making a fortune in his which ensured justice for enemy

aliens. own right. And he gave away a fortune, for his gift to McG!! never was

all only one of many, all anonymous.

EIVES who

Say,

"But, as the daughter It's only n fool what changes his mind, and as she's got all the braina in the family I expect she'll tell us what to do when the time comes."

Iron Curtain call

F you want to ring up Uncle

The Jesfora

adm

anonymously is always an mirable character: the mere uct reveals his qualities.

And Ane qualities have cer-

tiny been inherited by

uassador "Lew."

Knifing Echo

0 Joe Stalin in Moscow dial

(Continental Exchange)

"Mind you, the daughter Isn't CON blaming the Government for and ask for his number, if you that. She blames the Russians, know it. Or mnke It a personal though she did say five years

It will set you back £1 ago that no Socialist Govern- cell.

with 1s. Id. for three minutes. ment could go to war

Government; another Soelulist

This startling information, re- and If we didn't want er in the

newspaper para- ATS again, with me in the war- vented dens, and the wife in a shelter graph, will make your Uncle when she wasn't in a fish queue, Nat's Christmas much happier. we'd better vote Labour.

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"But now the daughter ways Many years ago he used to the Communists are not So spend Christmas morning ring cinlisin at all because Socialists Ing up strange names in the tele

phone book, such

The are Christians,

"Naturally the wife's fed up Reverend Timothy Teatime, and with rationing, and when she a Mis Trampleasure. read about the Germans stuffing theirselves with everything they

Then he spent 12 months In- Germany as allernate British Judge on the Bench which tried the top Nazis.

Its illness was the pensity of the strain he put upon himself. Bond Street Blues THE JEWELLERS of London Amare baving

a lean season, The lucky ones thank their stars that they have shops in Parls.

In London the 100 percent.

the richest buyers.

remember you

the

D Messi brother In 1917 purchase tax frighteris of even one of them was gaoled after a West End kulfing affray.

The other day this Mallere the end of worthy celebrated his sentence by buying himself a present.

Walking into a famous motor showroom he asked for imme- date delivery of the most lux- urious Rolls-Royce available.

Within five hours his £6,000 cheque had been cleared and he was the owner of a black and cream replica of one of the motor show models,

like

In Paris, with no such inx, the fainous houses have been packed:

Tube in the rush hour. Most popular ornaments: small: stones in heavy and elaborate

settings.

On the Record ȚERUSALEM'S Arabic news- paper Al-Difan is to serialise Trial and Error," the autoblo- graphy of Israel's President. Welzmann, which tells how the Jewish State was planned and established and the Arabs push- ed out.

Women of Taste

Feathered Kaiser TOW stands the reputation of H "Is that Mrs Trampleasure? London fashion houses with

aviator. American

Name: the smart women of the world? DID, In New Jersey: veteran want she said, 'What was my This is Mr BusJoy wishing you

Never higher. That is evident Kalier. Rank: carrier pigeon. daughter Aghtin in the Anny a Merry Christmas,"

from the fact that women are Kulser contributed to Allied for? To feed them so-and-s03

Now, for one guinea and one crossing from France to buy air power in two world wars, while we go short?"

His most spectacular fight ring up a Mr their clothes hert. pery, he can

Released by an "So far as I'm concerned per- Djugashvi (Joo Stalin's real

The French still lead in even- was in 1918.

exotic cocktail agent behind the lines, lle sonally meself, I must say I'm name) and ask him what they're ing clothes the best tweed brought pretty tired of taxation and the having for Christmas dinner in Or price of tobacco,

the concentration

camps. cheer him up with some funny crack like: When is a door not

When it's an a door? curtain."

"Of course, as the daughter says, you get it back in free medical service and orstpital treatment, but I don't reckon

Betler st!, now

готь

the iron

ariel

to H. Q. a message enabled reinforcements to be moved up in time.

He won 18 decorations. Now he gets a marble tombstone.

Her Grace The smart society woman must pay dearly for her clothes.

Bottom prices at the top shops the biggest houses in Eng

Welbeck Abbey, one of are 10 guineas for a hat, 50 for n suit or cocktall frock, 00 for an land, evening dress.

frocks: but for

dresses, the smartest which suits and

Claridges or tailor-mades for Cheltenham, all the world comes lo Mayfair.

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81-year-old

Winifred

She wastes no time in mourn

Duchess of Portland lives among I'd get back what I pay unless curtain telephones are open, ho Each shop may have a dozen shadows of the past. the three of us was ill every could ring up his darling Ana customers who spend £1,050 a So they are,

know, day of the year and lived in the Parker, the Rumanian Foreign year. But the brend mod butter ing faded glories, this fine old I believe I'm sitting on some- orsipital with as many opera Secretary, reported last week to

he out of favour with tlons us we liked. thing,

Kremlin.

Do you

Perhaps it's the cat. She's

always in that chair.

"Then you get a bit back on

No he isn't, Why. dammit the food subsidies, or rather the wife does, because she gets the TOR some time now I have all, it's your great-granddad, same ousekeepin money, subst

been haunted by the uneasy 1 say, I'm awfully Sorry, dies or no subsidies. feeling that women are getting Bertha. taller and wider.

juwa

and

That's all right. But I hope I haven't finished him off.

Don't worry. He's always get ting trodden on or sat on by sumebody.

Well, so long as you don't

the

"Who do you want?" "Mrs Pauker." "How do you spell 11?" "P for passion, A for a-a-ak, "So if she gets the rations for Youse got goo-goo cues, K cheap she's only gellin them for lum kiss me kuick. Pauker. cheap on my income tax, which Rhimes with corker."

"Why do you wish to spealt is like giving er ousekeeping

with her?" twice over.

In my moncy

"Because it's Christmas and opinion the man who said the

love her." woman always pays was a boru

I'm just sorry it fool.

quest.

Ceme

Rather, Thanks. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

☆ ☆ ☆

"What is her first name?" "Ana"

:

Now the scientists have con- firmed that they are not only much bigger than their grand- mothers but are going to get bigger and bigger. Some time in

the distant mind, future they

are going to be

Not a bit. "len feet high, with barrel happened to a chests, slumpy legs, and beady again, won't you?

They will have "deep | eyes,

massive valera, enormous appetites."

Most lucky men of my age

"So I don't know who's going Sometimes the to get our vote. will be dend before this 'has-

Liberals but s I am descendeil

doughter says the pens,

would guarantee social justice from long-lived familles, I may tive to see the house filled with IF you was to ask me and the without penalising free enter- ten-feet-ligh grand-daughters wife and the daughter how prise with taxation, such as er

great and

- daughters, we're going to vote this time," extra bit of typin in the evenin,

"Your three minutes are up - grund about slamping

the place, said Floating Vote, "we wouldn't

"Sometimes she thinks Would you like another three roaring at each other, wolfing be able to tell you.

Churchill is the only man to minutes?" porterhouse steaks, and picking

"Of course, we voted Labour give the Russians what for, their great horse teeth with Iron

sometimes last time. The daughter said And skewers.

NANCY

Floating Vote

Miner Leaguo

YOUNG MAN--THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR GETTING 60 DIRTY

YOU OUGHT, TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF

she thinks

comes from the many middle rich, who spend fmin £100 to £500.

Fura top the price lists, Chea- pest full length mink is £1,500, fax included.

Phantom beaver is popular, and cheaper-about 700 guineas. of an air- But for the price Hine ticket and a jaunt to Paris you can pay 300 guineas, have it delivered to the plane, substitute n Parls label--and possibly get

with it. Best

Away

dressed

WIC

lady. Boldly, in her widowed old age, she marches out to do good for others.

The Portland College for the Disabled is to be established close to her home: £140,000 is needed, and no one works harder for it than the duchess.

It

She even goes around the pubs to make collections.

The other night she sailled forth to attend a meeting in the mining town of Mansfield, was fogy, and her chauffeur wanted to turn back.

But Winifred Duchess of Port- Fleming land never turns back: she kept

Mrs her appointment.

women?

fending couturler gives these

Pettr (netress Cella Johnson);

of the Boyd-Rochfort, wife

Lady King's racehorse trainer; Rulhermere, and the Maharance of Rajpipla.

Helen's Hammer Wo, going to a sale, would expect to find an auctioneer In skirts?

"Ana who did you say?" "Ana time, and where, ana

place with her, Ana how, and life I could

face with her.

Eccentric Lady Ana, Ana, sing Hozanna. How I love your charm-THE Dowager Countess Peel will whose £4,000,000 ng manner. time, and place, and brought her Into the news re-

an econtric and at wns cently, crotchety character

In 1945 the sent £500 to the Conservative Party with the promise that she would double -(London Express Service) it if Churchill were sacked.

Ana

where."

By Ernie Bushmiller

I'M GOING TO TELL YOUR

FATHER

HELLO,

Pop

But here is Mrs Helen Mad- dick. Every Tuesday and Thurs- day she takes the hammer and deals with the lightning bidding of London'a one

biggest secondhand furniture sales.

Auctioneering is in her blood; muccessive generations of her family have ruled the rostrum: for 150 years.

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