THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1938.
BRITAIN'S PLANS
FOR WORLD FAIR Quins At Four Are
Going To Trade
May Cost More than
£400,000
ENGLISH GARDENS As Bankers!
IN NEW YORK
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TOMBSTONE SEARCH FOR £175,000 HEIRS
Because he has 2175,000 to give away, Mr. 1. Desmond McLoughlin, Dublin solicitor, is searching among church registers and tombstones.
These thousands are the balance of the estate of Mrs. Ida E. Wood
An English aeroplane construe-eccentric widow of Benjamin Woo tion firm has offered a machine New York publisher, and pilot to each girl.
The General Electric Supply Company have stated that they are offering to provide free electricity to the 'Quins and their future
New York, April 6,
London, April 9. Great Britain's expenditure on
By 1943 the Dionne quintuplets, her exhibit at the New York world's most famous babies, will
Mrs. Wood died in New York in World's Fair, which opens in May, be worth nearly $500,000 sterling.
1932, aged ninety-three, without 1939, may exceed $400,000. This Capital invested for them in
making a will. In her bedroom was revealed to-day by Mr. Robert various commercial enterprises
alone was found 1,000,000 dollars. Hudson, Secretary of the Depart-may even surpass that sum
Now Mr. McLoughlin, as a com- ment of Overseas Trade, who has Mr. J. A. Vallin, recently ap-families..
missioner of deeds for the State of come to the United States specially pointed insurance adviser to the From clothes to the gas for cook-New York, has received instructions to inspect the site.
four-year-old 'Quins, states that ing, from transport to trousseaux, from a United States Court to in- Describing Britain's plans for one-third of the insurance societies everything is under contract. yestigate in Dublin whether anyone the Fair at a luncheon in his in America guarantee the fortune Now the towri of Callander, their on this side of the Atlantic is-en- honour to-day, Mr. Hudson pointed of the "Five Daughters of Cal-birthplace, is to approach the titled to share the fortune. out that the Empire, with its total lander."* -
Dominion of Canada with a requestIt is believed that the dead mil- of 150,000 square feet, would have
A new scheme, only awaiting the that after the next birthday of the lionairess was descended from a more space than any of the 64 na- agreement of Mr Dionne, is to 'Quins it should be allowed to Dublin baker named Patrick Graw- tions participating.
realise all investments and with change its name to Dionneville. ford, who was married to an Irish the capital obtained to found a
girl named Anne Walsh. bank, which will trade under the name of Dionne 'Quins and Co.
The British Pavilion, designed by Mr. Howard Robertson, would be an oblong building, 100 feet high,
occupying 60,000 square feet. On To the 'Quins fortune must be SHE HAD A
FAMILY
the first floor level broad terraces added the hundreds of gifts that would be provided, where tea would reach Callander daily from all be served in the English manner. parts of the world. These include
English gardens would surround bicycles, carriages, toys, clothes, OF 106
this building, where the main in-puppies, goldfish, bags, crockery, dustrial exhibits would be devoted Idolls, wine, skates.
to engineering, textiles, glass, porcelain and shipbuilding.”
PAVILION PAGEANTRY
And already one room is filled with beauty products sent by well- wishers.
The outstanding feature of the Pavilion hall would be its pagean-five tiny revolvers. try, declared Mr. Hudson.
Recently a London armourer sent
It would recall vividly, by means of uniforms, banners and apparte- nances, every description of the traditional pageantry of Great Britain, and would be "one of the most enthralling exhibits in the
Fair."
-Museum to House Gifts
A museum is to be built soon by the municipality of Callander to house these gifts.
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The Little Old Lady.
Of Acton
FRENCH PREMIER RESEMBLES MUSSOLINI
M. Daladier, the strong man of France, has some resemblance to Signor Mussolini.
once
Like Mussolini, he is stout, Mrs. Mary Ann Paterson, who square-shouldered
and was believed to have had more des- with
swarthy, heavily-moulded features. cendants than any woman in Eng-Like Mussolini, he has the habit of land, was buried in Greenford Park taciturnity: Cemetery.
Like Mussolini also, he was Mrs. Paterson was 88 when she a schoolmaster. But without their fortune, their died at Acton.
But his shaggy black hair and requirements for the whole of their She leaves eight children, 90 the romantic forelock which is the lives are already assured, thanks grandchildren and eight great joy of the French cartoonists, ac- to advertisement contracts. Even grandchildren.
cord him an even more striking re- ́ Mr. Grover Whalen, president of if their money vanished entirely Twenty of the grandchildren semblance to another dictator, the Fair, who said the fact that Mr. to-day, they would be assured of were at the funeral, and three Napoleon. Hudson had taken the trouble to living in comfort and free from generations of one branch of the Daladier is a Provencal. In the come to the United States indicated worry.
family stood at the graveside. French Chamber his qualities have the deep interest the British Gov- - Under these contracts, their Many who could not attend sent won him the nickname the bull of ernment was taking in the Fair, larders and wine cellars will always flowers.
the Camargue," that district of announced that Coronation Day and be stocked, even after marriage. It was as remarkable a funeral Provence where fighting bulls are Empire Day would be the occasions) - Contracts have been sealed pro-procession as Acton, where Mrs.bred. of special fetes. One of the fea-viding from now until 1980 free Paterson lived all her life, can re- tures of the Fair would be a services for the 'Quins from hair-member. "British Week"
dressers, masseurs, chiropodists and other specialists.
News has just been received From Transport to. Troussen from Canada of the death of the On January 1, 1943, other con- Vice-President of The Manufac-tracts will furnish each child with turers Life Insurance Company, her own car, built to order, and to Lieut-Colonel G. G. Mitchell, at be replaced each year by a new up the age of 59 years.
to-date model
5 Years Wasted At Meal Times!
According to statisticians, most home can be arranged in a way to of us waste more time than we pro-cut down movement to a minimum. fitably use, and a group of expert They estimate that women waste investigators who have just con- at least ten years in an, average cluded a minute examination of the life, and, of this, two years are lives of ordinary people declare spent in answering knocks at the that, among other things, we all door. waste five years of our lives in Waiting in queues is another eating.
source of time-wasting, and, in America, it is estimated that more than 50,000,000 hours are wasted every year in this way,
According to them, the ordinary man could eat all the food re- quired for good health in half an hour each day, yet he takes more than two hours for his daily meals. In a lifetime of seventy years, therefore, some 45,000 hours are wasted, or about five years.
And most of the waste is caused by waiting for the meals to be served!
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Telephones, regarded as the finest time saving instrument ever invented, are responsible for x terrific waste of time.
The business man who totalled the minutes spent in waiting for calls to be answered would prob- ably find that he had wasted about 500 days over a period of 30 years, Housewives come in for critic or a little more than a fortnight ism, too.
every year. According to the experts a little And the man who claims that he study and planning would cut out is kept continually busy at the at least a quarter of the unneces-office will find on analysis that be sary labour involved in housework has actually wasted nearly half his They add that even the humblest time in idle chatter.
IN THEIR TAXIS
Three of the grandsons, Edward, William and Alec Harper, drove to the cemetery in the taxis with which they normally earn their livelihood
He was a fruit farmer until-he- started to display his fine gifts of oratory addressing open-air meet- . ings in the redder districts of Paris. His principal recreation is the game of the strong, silent in- tellectual
took Lewis, her two-years old son, to the funeral
Mrs. Paterson was respected in Acton and was considered remark- able for her agility in spite of her Mrs.jage.
The gamily left from the Harpers house in Acton, where Mrs. Pater- son had lived since her husband, a retired valet, died five years ago.
Mrs. Harper was one of Paterson's eight children. An- "You should have seen her,” ons other daughter who has 19 chil-of the neighbours said to an "Even- dren, now lives in Ireland.
ing News" representative. and one of them, Kathleen Stokes, years her junior."
Mrs. Harper has three daughters used to get about like a woman 20
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