1950-09-02 — Page 11

1946

* CONGRATS, METE,ON - OUR JOINT VACIDAY,

"DA, BUT, HOW,DO 1 KHOW

YOU'RE NOT A WARMONGER ··

YOURSELF?"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1950.

1947 - "wo. ME

1948 "o-Bur

„DA:DA! & BLOODTHIRSTY

WARMONGER!"

"ITS NOT

1949

"A BLOODTHIRSTY IMPERIALIST FASCIST.

WARMONGER!"

KOREA:

“A BLOODTHIRSTY

IMPERIALIST

——— WARMONGER!"

1950 WHAT DID I SAY IN 1946 ?

LOOK AT YOU! A BLOODTHIRSTY IMPERIALIST FASCIST WARMONGER;"; OUT TO DESTROY PEACE-LOVING PEOPLES LIKE ME!"

HISTORY OF THE PAST FIVE YEARS

"WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS P"

World Copyright, Dy arrangement with papa serale.

THE LAND OF UPSIDE DOWN

AODO

Four hatted gentlemen of Korea-looking like a cartoonist's impression of an English cricket umple.

Where Yes

-From Mra. Mary Linley Taylor's sketchbook.

meamS

and eggs are sold by the yard

by MARY

HEN I arrived in Korea as a 19-year- old bride at the end of World War 1.. I felt like Alice Through the Looking Glass. For Korea, julged by Western standards, i topsy-turvy country where mist things are done in re-

verse.

LINLEY TAYLOR

nut

not The fees that it according

vary

the

In this oh country it in

to the It's fined of place

Mattheulties of the not the Women, match. The uglier the men,

bricio he tolo a prule and glory a

mere her will have to pay the emituet woman for takinst her of his hands.

huts.

חנן

To protect - Katra creas tions from the rain the dress

Korean carr wooscious unbrella-fiks waterproof shield and a hat-box which, in the Tepsy-turvy trudhion, opens at the button mstead of the top,

Amoor poorer folk the marke in settledl by the sans of a family contract, and the The Koy Reutioman is so ceremony consists

to bede eating from

White is The colour of mourning. Every man keeps his hat on in the house. And end of hat: that he wears fout merely of the etiquette demands that the at a time, adding two feet

his height, and "Inokion very the same bowl an man precedes the weman.

፡፡ beach nach lite cartoonisti.

the bridegroom. Korean boatmen

is an old cus their craft stern first, car- passion of an English cricket

tum for the huts- .nl to have AR penters cut wood by draw. Doplre. ing their saws towards the body.

An

sur umusing but prisingly useful shopping custom is the sale of eggs, not by the dozen, but by the yard. Breakages are mini- mised by an ingenious tech- nique of plaiting eggs securely into straw.

I

rope A

Misunderstanding

::-

These people make the finest mang concubines as he faper in the world. They afford. But, due to Western in- it for most purposes, including Huence. this custom is on the Poors, translucent

and decline. windows--but never for money.

Jour

Like a volcano

No

Mrs. Mary Linley taylor

them

combat.

0

WHATS

GOING0

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

NE who has seen the new

Princess anys that she is. very pretty, has blue eyes, and what hair she has is light and downy.

She is a happy baby,and rare- ly cries. Her was the ensicst birth n mother could desire. From first to Inst it took a few minutes under four hours.

Up to the last day Princess Elizabeth lived her normal life, taking care only to avoid making sudden efforts such as running upstairs,

Very little anæsthetic Was used. Princess Elizabeth Was merely made drowsy.

MR'S GEORGE

BUTULAY "Crowfie"

#aol in Singapure

Dutch freebooter whe

The baby lives in a nur While In sery near her mother. All thin visitora,

including The waged a private war against the Indonesians sent a message to Queen, had to wear masks. General MacArthur. He offered "30,000 jungle fighters" to fight in Korea.

Princess Elizabeth feeds the child herself at four- hourly Intervals, but some- times the baby has slept through the night.

Clarence House buzzes with suggestions for names, from Bundleen onward. The King; of course, has to ap- prove the names, but he will sanction whatever names hi daughter chooses, for, her friends may, "he worships her."

The governess

THE CHOICE of governess for her chil- dren is not likely to concern Princess Elizabeth yet.

She was seven before 3liss Marion Crawford (Mrs George Buthlay). widely known as "Crawlie." came to care for her and her sister.

But it is certain that when the appointment is made it will be in the democratic mond set by the King and Queen.

Custom of the past bad demanded that nobility should have the care of royalty. When the daughter Fi Hanoverian pastor, Louise Lehzen,

ap- pointed governess to

of

Was

Monty jun,

SHELL-MEX have recruited young engineering praduate: David Bernard Mont- somery, heir to the Viscountey of Alamein.

He was 22 on Friday, is on a And mountaineering holiday.

starts work in the autumn.

ile had no ambition to make the Army carcer and was salished with his national rervice.

He is a mixture of opposites. lis lair for organisation is obviously inherited, but he is no ascetic. Friends describe him as "completely human."

Singing star

THE BEAUTY of voice and feature 111 such operatic stars 15 Kirsten Flagstad, Ljuba Welitsch and Elizabelli Schwarzkopf has been challeng- ed at the Salzburg Festival.

An unknown, Lina della Casa,

Strauss's in Richard ringing

masterpiece, "Capriccio," brought the audience to a feet.

A woman of exceptional beauty and charm, she certainly took the minds of her audience off that nearby Iron Curtain.

Dressing-down

IN ANY

consideration of

the formation of a European

Princess Victoria, George the opinion of Claude Teller de IV. made her a baroness,

She wielded strong in- fluence; aroused strong opposition.

2

y with German contingents

Bolslambert will be heard with respect.

Is He

44, Norman of Governor of the French zone, short, quick, with an explosive temper behind a nut-brown face. Once when his hunting-lodge flew the Tricolour upside down, he called out the Germans

Today the posts of private secretary and governess are the most powerful appoint-sponsible (who topped him by ments the King can make a foot), and reduced them to without political guidance shivering submission by blister

ing invective. from his Ministers.

"Crawfie" did much to monki the characters of the

ong Princesses.

Would such a man be in favour of a German Army? I understand he would.

Trumpets

FROM LE TOUQUET

has not yet reopened.

The

1

Homage,

can skilful in war. Their training

hunters of wild animals is Living today in one of Grace and Favour Ruerilia the admirably for

houses round Kensington hear that British visitors Te Korean wives, having sccept-

Palace, she is often visited increasing, but the best of the ed other Western democratic By nature they are hos- by members of the Royal prewar hotels, the lias, recently handed together pitable, huniorous, and indusFamily, and marched on

Royal Plcardy, badly The Govern-

The latest royal name in shell-and fire-scarred, has only mant offices demanding that all trious, but are extremely vio- A tent if roused. They seem in- THE only source of vitamins members of the National

the visitors' book she keeps 60 of its 150 rooms in use, and

18 "suites de luxe." In the Korean diet is a no- cunbly who kept roncubines (ensitive to pain.

is that of Princess tient dish known as kunchi should be dismissed.

They are at their best when Margaret. cornered, and adversity sharpens the wits. In defence they are capable of flashes

f

This consists of cabbage, fur-

lp, ontons, dry tish, ginger.

and the hottest pepper in world.

Li

Isolation

This powerful concoction Is WY are Koreans so beland inventive genius.

QUICKLY discovered that Lattened down with rough salt communicate la a man-dize earthen-ware Jar trying to with the inhabitants is and left in the sun to ferment. nen for six months it is buried exasperating nightmare of

underground. misunderstanding,

in

the times?

Forcerers,

of

First iron-clad

omni-

of

The mimic

THERE ARE emply chairs at our Embassy in Buenos Aires. Br John Balfour, Am- bassador, and Mr Edgar Julni,

are both

For two years they have been playing Mother Hubbard to Britain's cupboard.

But rumours that Sir John is relinquishing the post are as yet unconfirmed).

1 xlue to 300 years complete isolation when death wen the penalty for anyone at- tempting to leave the country. IN the 10th century invasion Commercial Minister, For Koreans write Is it surprising, when the des

by the Japs, the Koreans on leave. Bracy is ultimately disinterred,

Trade treatley eventually re invented the world's first Iron- Oriental script from right to

In encenter IL phenomenon opened Korea to the world in eind battleship. On Troy Horse left. Their language is something ilke

Tho a volcano in the 19th century.

Arst nea they bullt a ship with different from Chinese Or eruption?

emissaries to the Hermit King- turtle-like armoured canopy. French and

dom found a comic opera Court, Japanese as

Although rough and some with the king reigning

The floating turtle, belching German are from English. finns cruel with animals the patent surrounded by 600 cour- the rat smoke screen in his

the And when the student Korean has a businesslike respect ters, eunuchs, concubines, tory, rammed and routed

Get his pony. At night- witches, and

ali Japanese fleet, previously thinks he has mastered the for

ablaze by flaming arrows. language he is still faced on returning home' from a dressed in fantastic costumes. day's plecking in the country. with the Korean's peculiar the pony is given

When the Japs annexed the That Korea invention, born a meal of

His new Embassy on the of In

defeated habit of saying "Yes" when bean soup-never hay.

country in 1910 thousands

adversity.

the Avenida Alvear has furnishings to Koreans fled over the. moun- Japanese plan

conquer from-the old German Einbassy he really means "No."

Then the beast in hoisted by tains to Manchuria and Siberia. the world in the 18th century in London. belly-bands to the stable rafters

It is quite on the cards that

On a carpet once the pride of leaving its tired legs to dungle

Skilful in war.

the inventive, hard-pressed

Ribbentrop, Sir John has been restfully in mid-air throughout the night.

Koreans may produce another known to give an Imitation of

for unpleasant surprise

the Hitler in thetorical food. MIERE is little doubt that present-day

who aggressors these exiled Koreans and Plso seek to dominate the world their sons, indoctrinated with via Korea,

one

White became the na tional costume because the periods of mourning were so long. (They were seven yeurs for an emperor, three for a father-but no mourns for a woman),

The Koreans, being

but poor

philosophical people, decided it was more economical Lo remain mourning for ever.:

A

Contact women

Soviet ideas, form the nucleus Mary Linley Taylor is the the marringe market con- or the well-trained: anules_in-

.

British-born widow of an tact women or go-betweens veding from the north today. American gold-mine

operator make a handsome --living out

nt arranging weddings between Traditionally the Koreans are it has fult returned to

who have a peace-loving people, but they tain after 30 years in Korea,

in

mea and never even met.

women

At 50 he has a high reputation in the Argentine.

"

Warlike peace

THE PLAN "to'save world peace" which is being brought to London by Captain .*"Euroo" Westerling is a warlike

The casino has been rebuilt. 11 houses a night club, where recently the cabaret consisted of a fur fashion show and a per-

30 formance by

trumpet- blowing Moroccan Spahis, They stood the heat better than the modela in mink. -

London Esprits Tervice}

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

It wished were huraya beggars could ride, but the

·tačí ··· remains, -darling; -- that vore not a polo her and,

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