Correspondence
Letters on all topics of interest to men will be particularly welcome.
Men and Manners. - Regarding J. Wentworth Day's article on the decline of good manners, how right he is! As manager of a very busy hotel in the North I see it daily - so much so that I have put up a notice: Gentlemen remove their hats - others are asked to! But I don't quite agree with Mr. Day's reason for why men walk outside ladies. Originally this was not to protect them from vehicles splashing mud but from the slops thrown out from upper windows. (The habit is illustrated in one of Hogarth's pictures.) Just one more point: among the men who do carry gloves, few know really how to. They should be carried with the fingers to the back - not to the front like a bunch of bananas. - John G. Showers (Rodley, Leeds.)
Girls of Brazil. - Your article entitled "The Girls of Turkey" prompts me to write and tell you about the girls of Brazil, one of whom I married after emigrating. Brazil, I think one can claim, has the most beautiful girls of all - for here is a mixing of the world;s races, and if you want a girl with a dash of Japanese or, say, Syrian blood (not too much but just a little), you can take your choice. Or perhaps you prefer something Italian with a hint of Polish, Hungarian, or German. Or even a lovely brown-skinned girl, with a suntan that doesn't fade in winter. They are all to be found in Brazil. Just one word of warning - Brazil's marriage law has no divorce as we know it, and in case of legal separation the wife is entitled to half her husband's wealth! - W.R. (Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, Brazil).
Financial Column. - In a recent issue F. Wray was asking what a really good citizen should do with a couple of quid. Should he (1) buy National Savings Certificates and thus get interest paid to him by the Government; or (2) buy fags and booze to the value of 40s., thus making a free gift to the State 0f 30s.? The answer is obviously the former. Buy £2 worth of Savings Certificates and at the end of ten years you'll be lucky is you can buy half the quantity of fags and booze for the 50s., thus making a gift to the Government of 45s. By doing this you will also enable the Government to make 11/4 % per annum for itself on your £2. And with your sip of booze you can toast all governments and wish them to the nether regions where they, like your single cheroot, will go up in smoke. - P.R. James (Portslade, Sussex).
Anti-Shave Wanted. - We read that the medical profession are to study ways and means of encouraging the growth of hair on bald pates. In these wonderful days of scientific development, when one begins to think that nothing is impossible, it seems very likely that the remedy they seek will soon be forthcoming. Is it too much to hope that some of our really brainy people might get together to find out how to do the reverse - i.e. stop the whiskers growing on our chins? - E.J. Tibbitts (Sevenoaks, Kent).
Life's A Laugh
In Times Square you can buy a cruet in the form of
Marilyn Monroe (recumbent) with removable pepper and salt units.
Sir Huge Casson.
Two old college classmates met, after many years, in a bar.
They hoisted a few together, and then one of them noticed the time.
"Holy smoke! Doesn't your wife raise the dickens when you stay out late like this?" he asked.
"No," his friend replied. "I'm not married." - "Not married!" exclaimed the first man.
"Then why do you stay out late like this?"
"The Tender Trap."
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Clues Across
1. The wrinkles that make news? (9).
8. He gets half-way along the road at one push (5).
9. Sounds ominously as though we ought to have a drink first (7).
11. Won't solve the housing problem (8).
12. You'll understand when she drops! (5).
13. Not furious (4).
14. He's rather inclined to see things that aren't there (9).
15. Row (4).
17. Don't allow that tangled beard into the saloon! (5).
19. A small bed makes a great difference when one doesn't live in a big house (8).
21. One's position in life may be quite different after this (7).
22. Try to get a corner in fish? (5).
23. Blow it if it isn't in a jam! (9).
Clues Down
2. Avoid going to the extremes of being deluded (5).
3. Gay young girl who seems to float along? (8).
4. Just one thing after another (4).
5. Change into the old girl's garment (5)
6. Somewhat seedy in the absence of personal transport? (7).
7. Just room for you if you don't mind squatting on the coverlet (9).
10. Hold-up man at a football match? (9).
12. He can well afford to arrange a curl on top (9).
13. Immoral suggestion for those who can't afford to marry (4, 4).
14. Get Ivor to exhibit high feeling (7).
16. Makes a mark in the money (5)
18. Song Robin (5).
20. Cut down from one of the surplus fire appliances (4).
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