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THE COPYBOOK PRINCESS

“It's a girl” adds one more cliapter to the life-story

Happens Right

So was that he became a maller at "the right are" of 22 She wanted a son. A son was horti.

Once again when it came to haby Prince her naming the

where Everything touch was copybook-correct. It was time, the thought, to intro- duce a new name to break up und the long line of Georges Edwards in the Howe of Wind- sor.

by EVE PERRICK

HE said that she and the

Edinburgh And a girl

Duke of wanted a girl. was born.

Even when it comes to plan- ning a family Princess Elizabeth continues her life story as The Girl to Whom Everything 13ap pens Right,

For what better foundation for a family could there be than

from son, separated

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his

the

younger sister by 21 montis? Wight through her life Princess has been the girl who

moved in the crowd but never her pedestal- from toppled

forever at the right place at the right time.

She win the

stalden-hire.

blue-eyed, beautiful child whee

three of the favourite film star of the day.

portraits outrold

Shr was the young girl

whe displayed dignity quiel during the war years and in the

of

uniform of the ATS another

Today Prines Charles has o sister. The family unit is rom- plete in itself,

Three years ago, when the became a Freeman of Edinburgh, the Princess said: "In the days; of my childhood the sun seemed always to be shining."

And still is.

-Contos Erpress Serrier)

ATTY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1950.

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"A brench-of-premise settlement will cost you minimum of $25,000, but, on the other hand, you could marry the girl and get a Mexican divorce for

Boy, 17,

"OUR son of 17, while

at at formed

(21)

school. 15 attachment with a viri of 15 at a nelghbouring school, She thoroughly ite and a perfect nuisance. Eventually she was crpclled.

around $500D."

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Scandal at Roaring Camp

HERE THEY DUG THE GOLD.

By George F. Willison. (Eyre and Spottis woode. 168.)

T

Tabor and his wife Au- gusta were keeping a store to in Lendville, struggling make ends meet, when two German shoemakers, Hook and Rische, stalked in and asked for Rische

ilon's expense of 700 tons

of

NEW BOOK ST pores from Bornco to

by

GEORGE

MALCOLM THOMSON

or

:1 grubstake. to decide whether it was better HEM wan the days

WIS "the worst to be born in Tipperary pardner! The mad, rip-roaring days of the played-out man I ever met" Connaught. Colorado Gold Rush in 59. his entire wealth a pick, when the wagons streamed a spade and a faithful old out over plains, bearing the dog. slogans, "Pike's Penk Bust."

or

Tobor's rubstake With

dollars' worth seventeen

lolen Jug Red And The days of California whisky, the Getmans went out Gulch and Buckskin Joe, of to . bun-custeerers and, strang In a week, 15 feet Jera, had men and vigilantes, they truck are. of the Sandy Creek Mus- bring me

Commercial risks

Bre hletic

the Scottish Highlands.

Be quits the civil service

a blazo of glory, and just in too. timo Miss Smith quits, She has for a long tone Tid fr Benthek her in-tray.

This hi-hearted, prepot- terous excursion into Whitehall will strain nobody's powers of the boll- concentration during day season.

R. P. LISTER, bar Notting-

it

of grow higher: robbery occurs in kam 1914; graduated Blancher- of broad daylight. Tenderfeet are ter University: worked in. Ad- of advired to shoot lively and keep miralty torpedo factory and No civit Mistry of Aircraft Production; out of French Row: power existing, the locul mag per up research to became

Tabor. is full-time writer. nates act, led by down, Highland Guards muster sixty- doublers, Royal "When you four in black

plaids mancy stead of Stewart lifts, bonnets,

said and skein dhius. Tabor has the

the Carbonate rocka, I'll believe you," sacre and Kings. Above all, of Horace Aumista. But withhi the year, rank of general.

Tabor was a millionaire iwice the Bonanza Tabor.

A of

girl,

15

Over „Kants.

Divorced by Augusta,

beautiful married a

Baby Doc, girl named

QUORUM. By Phylis Bentley. Gollauez. 10s. 6d. 320 pages.

No prices, Miss Bentley's

But even this milltary display did not daunt the rumans. They Joined the police. They put on There were Sheriffs badgen.

is an honest, West Riding many ways of coming upon

weave, each yard exactly IL money In the Magic City at

another. Her people are frur he time when the mines were pre- ta type. But are they also true

to life?

በር”

ke

dancing ducing $17 millions worth of ore

who in the year.

lik Would it not be more Most of them are recorded in life an we fenow it if the un- be wise in feeling a longer en wee a $80,000 diamond neck-

scrupulous financler, Sir Clmtle. be good. Es-tace at the wedding, which was Angement would

President of this enormously readable

Rearing Considine, were to have one are attended by the pecially as you obviously

allruistic moment? Or if Coun- harmony the USA. Their daughter Rose count of the luck of not yet in emnetlanal

cillor Ormerod, forgetting that Mary Echo Silver Dollar Taber Camp, is squalor, seandai, fol with each other. A woman is

F. WILLISON, he a staunch labour leader, fool who seeks to nail her flance died 40 years later to a Chicago ly, greed and heroism.

inbrothel.

Just for of couhl. down by a rapid marriage, the girl who has fewer deferts, case he goes off with

girl. He dig his toes in We feel they are

more his parents object. IIe and his "caif-love" dies

with little instinetively feels that love natural death. is "costly" and he is glad damage to either party. to pay the price of his parents' disapproval,

most unsuited, but are pinter less to stop it. He is senstbir and good in everything else. and kera un his Church."

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Your Gatice, however, is also well- at fault. There Ken Christian rule that he is breaking. Some courses of c- For the ion may be quite harmless, of

even god. in themselves, but

urid

Your boy has character is wdi brought up. lem but who have taken pains to inculcate decent clan

In this way he can show parents faced with your prob- they come to cause deep hurt

egy will find an echo in parent's heart. It is n

his chivalry. So busy is he side in her personality-that of most difficult and youthful friendliness.

has no time to reflect on her an real merits and demerits.

Her coming-of-am rccurred / Common problem. It is just defending his girl that he cards of moral judgment

with the during the royal tour of Souths, commoela Africa, so that the Princess's 21st who falls in love with birthing

Celebrations were "imposible" boy,

share! by the world-but com- ing from Cape Town somehow the perfect Empire provider

Haven,

And then she was the happy laughing girl who fell in love with a handsome naval officer, Ove years older.

gir

It is obvious therefore see straight These attachment. gen that he won't Lerally begin between two until his loved me is no Wise attacked. young people who are swept longer

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in

duty to stop, to a loved one, then it is

his

their offspring there is no real

Baby Doe trudged through the public library, tragedy in the

reels of Denver to read of the newspaper. In 1938, she was the had not the comers to buy found frozen to death in a shack at the Matchless Mine,

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tmice.

•GEORGE graduated from University oficer in World War I, attended

Q5 Rhode Oxford University Colorate, served as machine gun fish, reactionary or 37

acholar,

But the tragedy of the Tabora lies further ahead, Mr Willison's THE WAY BACKWARDS. By R. P. Lister. Collins. exciting bonit is concerned describe the early, tumultuous

Xs. Gd. 252 pages. to Love must be prepared

days of the mining towns. to sp:- make sacrifices, even

Leadville, JERE we are in the govern "He cried Miss Sinith. solution.

it is A matter of

Saturday night in hum unless Year early training of

Year afes vital principle. Knowing it hurts In Little Church Casinn, Slim

nie Lee in a quarrel over will dw itself.

have han to work things out you your fauce ought to con-Jim Druce has just killed Brow "Let's govern."

bands he "roving eye,"

loot from a eminence game. In elmly for himself.

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or their foot by their first parents will shut down

It is the whole subject. They will experience of love.

thrilling; it is encourage him to join mix- new; it is On her wedding day the young mysterious. You feel waut- ed clubs where he will meet Prinres who had never beened. You feel you are fulfill other girls, known to mar a myal occasions in a need in someone else's

ht the minutes mistake by

significant. etiquette-was just right once life. You feel important and

A woth

it-terful Driv untain.

wonderful wedding-and

even

As the whole affair sim- mers down, the boy will find himself facing in cold blood in his girl's the defects character. Is she the ideal perfectly satisfying mother for my children

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He looks after other girls'

the

astonished

My

The advice

breaose naked, civil service. Only a few days But look at it again. You ad-Tiger Alley, Halla Garlock and Bentinck, who was new to the

depressed mit "wouldn't be really hape Minnie Pillsbury, stark

he had no work to do, hond are running a rice for a quart before, py with another person." Is it

at whisky. policeman passes termble (or him to take a light-hearted interest in his other girt friends"

a

fl

with the first insane person to asked for a transfer.

in

be arrested in the town, charged The department was herrined. I told Bentinck that what ke with "spending at his time

exhorta- nerded was some staff, gore- prayer and religious

body to do the dirty work. And thus mousy Miss Smith had tion."

"Tm loomed on his horizon

Girl," she ex- your Attached

From dive

to dive to

the

"4 AM dreply worried he vause I find, after 18 months

If you don't trust his deep acourion, I don't love my Aane as much as I should loyalty to you, that is another matter. But you confess he is Turtle things he does art on my nerves. One of his habitats deeply in love, with you. Trust

him. Share his jokes. Be glad "praying orchestra" of earnest looking after girls when I'm testa

sinners* wrestling for im, schich is humiliating

that others find him interesting. I women,

souls or with malean bouncera. sure this is the chic reason why i

begin erecting feel changed towards him. He h

Once you

Less earnest women like Mollie, barbed wire fence around him. May manage busy not really a fire, and he does tam

e trribly. But when I bring un

you will have lost bit. Be gen-ments in Coon Row.

Miss Smith resuseliates the subjret of a date for our red.

erous and open-hearted. He will sometimes breaks out in ding, he avoids the subject. Wr

love you all the We got changed fast

better for warfare. One night between caromittee and makes him are both 23

Christmas

discover how and will

much the houses of Mollie Price and secretary. Growing dally more ex- powerful and more reckless, Mr is in you than

Saille Purple, volleys are

customers Bentinck's greatest (and last) changed, girls and months, you know, ist more there the others. He then discovers deeper Sve to the an engage-

Joning in. The war is fought coup in the transport at the wa- levels of love with some ment at your age. He may well

mother ob- Father an! a wonderful day, in November.-

A lovely thing is ject. When the Princess perfonued her first feial ceremony the

to live a the occasion was the launching and threatenel. The adolescent's

the vehement desire of the pride of British Fleet-the Vanguard, life independent of parents companion for the next

makes common cause with years? happy omen that she would one day be a passenger in the ship

would be his sense of loyalty to the and that her life

girl. bound by noval affairs,

nami:

-

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"OVER

HERE'S BETTER?"

in

- London Express Service),

plained.

From that moment, Mr Ben- establish- tinck never looks back.

Rivalry

open

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There is enough "tory" the novel to see us through one committee meeting! hardly "Que+ enough for one novel. rum like a Saturday after- woon "ramble" in dull company and "bracing" weather.

at-

*PHYLLIS BENTLEY lives in her native Halifar; in an thority on the Bronter; hobby walking alone dales.

Yorkshire

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A VOICE IN THE HILLS. Saveli, Chatta and Windum;

ed.;

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tradition for a day the twa, Heriale Eves

to Sophie

he cannot settle down

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THE [DISCOVERY THAT

THE WIFE SHOULD HAVE BEEN

DITCHING FOR. THE DODGERS

ALL THIS TIME.