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Maids are apparently the cause Captain Elliston said that it was of the falling birth rate in more not yet realised that with the con- prosperous classes in Britain. So-tinuance of present conditions ciety women argue that the lack of serious fall in population would be- domestic servants accounts very gin in the next five years. largely for the empty nursery.
These views were expressed by Captain G. S. Elliston, M.P., in his presidential address to the section.
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of Hy- "There is no doubt that women of all classes," he went on,
"are re- fusing to face the drudgery endur- ed by mothers of large families in Victorian days.
The Department of Commerce of the United States has faced some difficult decisions in its history, but few have been more tiresome than that of the Chinese ears.
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"For the State, however, every child born is a very real asset, and it remains to be considered whether more generous concessions to par- ents would secure those average families of three or four children which are necessary if the present level of population is to be main- tained."
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An Indianapolis firm which spe- cialises in the technique of plastic surgery was anxious to import
Sir Stanley Woodwark, physician chun, from China three pairs of human
at Westminster Hospital, as Pre-sang, ears, in order to experiment with gident of the section which discuss a new process developed by a Chin-led nutrition and physical training, ese surgeon. The laws governing |said thousands watched games the entry into the United States of every Saturday, and while it was persons of Oriental race are. ex- true that they were in the open air, tremely strict, and when news of the they were not exercising their own ears (which will be obtained. by body. some means which have not been
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more deplorable disclosed) reached San Francisco, than for physical exercises to be the Collector of Customs there was carried to the point of physiologi- in a quandary...
cal fatigue or even boredom. Was it legal to import three pairs people were to benefit from the na- of Chinese ears with no Chinese attional fitness campaign, it would be tached thereto, and if they were al insufficient for them to be feeding business transsoted.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Loans granted on approved lowed to enter what duty should be
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Dr. Thomas Parran, Chief of the hall, or tennis court. Bureau of Public Health, was then approached, and gave it 28 his opinion that the importation of the "We not only tolerate badly cook-cription of banking business transact- ears would not constitute a threat ed food, but make a joke of it. We Current Accounts and Savings Ac-
ed. to the health of the nation. Next the are content to eat the same dishes counts opened. Mixed Deposits re- Post Office Department was asked day after day with monotonous re-ceived at rates which will be quoted whether the ears might be posted gularity."
on application. to their destination, but the Depart-
Trusteeship & Executorship under. The Marchioness of Reading, in taken. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire ment was firm. No ears should her Presidential address in the sec-
PHILIP GOCKCHIN, pass through the mails; the pur- tion devoted to the question of wo
Chief Manager chaser must devise his own method men and children and public health, of transporting them from San said that a combination of day and Francisco to Indianapolis. Finally, nursery schools was the ideal ar- the Department of Commerce an-rangement for children. nounced that, in spite of their best “The unsociable child,” she said, efforts, they had been unable to find "yields to the seduction of a happy. any regulation forbidding the im- social atmosphere; the child who port of ears, and had decided that will not eat at home eats happily they should enter the country free with other children, the laggard of duty. This glad news is now on quickly finds his own level, and the destructive turns to constructive its way to China.
There is a lurking suspicion; occupation.”ent. however, that the Department of Professor S. J. Cowell (London Commerce and the other officials in-University) said the problem of volved may be the victims of a hoax. maliutrition was much more Doctors say that there are plenty question of insufficient supply of of tears in this country and that in essential food constituents than any case there is no difference be-anything in the nature of inade- The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd: tween American and Chinese ears. quate total supply of food.
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