THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 12, 1939.
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CIRCUS FAMILY REHEARSES ON FARM.-They are the Ro- saire family and everyone does something, from trick riding to a trapeze act. Photo shows Ida Rosaire trick riding on horseback in the ring built in the garden.
MINISTERLEY!
A village with a
Parliament-
Ministerly (population 788), Shrop- shire-sounds like a joke, _parti- cularly when there's a Minister of Cream,
But, says this Minister, Mr. R. Oakley: "This is not a joke. We talk things over seriously so as to do the best for everyone."
When this little Parliament meets weekly, over a glass of ale, there is a Premier and Ministers to repre- sent all local interests-including Ministers of Meat and Agriculture.
ESTHER IS 'NON-ARYAN'
A German father at Gelsenkir- chen wanted to register the birth of a daughter under the name "Esther." The name was refused by the registrar, who declared the name was non-Aryan.
The father was not satisfied and took the matter to court. There it has been decided that the official was right. There will be no more Esthers in Germany.
Technically the courts are right. The name is of Biblical origin and. means "Loved of God.”
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Hitler's Adolf, of course, is pure German, means "Noble Wolf.
ALEXANDRA PALACE—
LOSS £5,128
Loss of £5,128 for the year ended April, 1938, on the working of the Alexandra Palace was reported in the accounts of the trustees recently.
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PRESENTED FROM COURT
From Highgate Police Court:— Defendant: I wrote another let- ter to my wife. This time I err- closed a stamped and addressed envelope. Her reply came back in the envelope, but without the stamp.
Witness: I had a half an hour to spare,, so I weighed myself.
Woman Witness: If either of the cars had hit each other there would have been a' collision.
Another Witness: My motor- bike has never-run properly since. my wife's brother put it right for
me.
VILLAGE “G”
MEN OF 1794
Cranbrook (Kent) Parish Coun- cil has received a gift that has as- tonished even the oldest inhabitants. It is the minute book of a strange old Cranbrook Crime Society of the year 1794.
It's strange, because no one in Cranbrook not even the bearded veterans on the village seats-seem to have heard of the society before. Beautifully written in an old- fashioned copper-plate hand, the minutes show that crime was then so bad in Cranbrook that the citi- zena banded themselves, together to form a mutual protection club.
Twenty-five of them-and many of the names might be taken from to-day's parish register-subscrib- ed £1 2s. 6d. cach. When any mem- ber was robbed or spent money in apprehending a criminal, he was allowed so much out of the funds.
BOY, 20, BEATS ALL WOMEN AT BAKING
Percy Gunter, houseboy, aged twenty, employ- ed locally, beat all women competitors in the cook- ery classes at a six-parish show' at Bridgetown, West Somerset.
For the fifth year in succession he gained all three prizes in the class for a jam sponge sandwich. Then he added to his achievements by gaining a first and a second for a sultana' cake, a first for scones, and a fourth for a plain sponge sandwich,
These awards gave him the high- JOB WOMEN CANNOT GET est points in the section
and
he was the only male competitor.. And again he won outright a silver .cup he had won twice before.
Gunter is entirely self trained..
* * * WIDOW LEFT MILLIONS DIES
Women need not apply for the post of Assistant Director of Reli- gion at the B.B.C.
Broadcasting House has decreed that the job, which carries a top salary of £800 a year, is one for a
man.
Lady Dalziel of Wooler, widow of Lord Dalziel, the man who in- Necessary qualifications are troduced taxicabs to London, has "wide religious sympathies, organ- died in London. Lord Dalziel, ising ability, knowledge of sacred chairman of the Pullman Car Com- music and a good microphone pany, left more than £2500,000 to voice.” his wife.
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* * EXCHANGE AWHEEL
Present Director of Religion, the Rev. F. A. Iremonger, is leav- ing the B.B.C. next April, and will be succeeded by the Rev. J. W.
The world's first telephone ex- Welch, Principal of St. John's Col- change on wheels was tested when lege, York. Major G. C. Tryon, the Postmaster- General, unlocked the steel door of a green van in London, dialled “O” on a telephone inside, and within a few moments was talking to the County Hall, Chelmsford. A few minutes later the mobile exchange was hitched to a tractor and was on its way to North Weald, Essex, which will be the first village to use it. This exchange can be rush- ed to any place where fire or storm has put the permanent installation out of order.
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REGIMENTS 250 YEARS
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The Royal Welch Fusiliers will celebraté the 250th anniversary of its formation this year. Efforts are being made to secure the at- tendance of the King at a review at Aldershot,
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WILLED CHAIR TO THE QUEEN
Queen Elizabeth is a beneficiary under the will of her friend, Miss Nellie J. G. Grimond, of Benchil, Broughty Ferry, a suburb of Dundee.
Miss Grimond leaves the Queen a hand-painted chair which used to be at her parents' home, Glamis Castle.
The chair, an antique piece of Hepple-white design, is said to have been made by an estate car- penter at Glamis.
MORE WOMEN WORK IN GERMANY
Number of women workers in Germany has increased in the past five years by 1,000,000 to 7,810,000 despite the fact that in the
For example, one entry runs; "27 June, 1796: That Thomas Wilms- hurst, Snr., shall be allowed 'eight Only once has Alexandra Palace shillings exponded by him in on early days of the Nazi regime it shown a profit. Deficits are co- deavouring to discover a Man who was stressed that women's proper vered by the contributions," from had stolen a Coat out of his house," place was in the home. Now out focal authorities totalling £4,090 Nearly all the criminals of the of every 100 workers in the coun- and catering profits, this year day were women, according to the try, approximately sixty-seven are $2,225,
mon and thirty-three women.
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Badminton, might well become. even more popular in Hong Kong if the ladies all turned out as Mau- reen. O'Sullivan “shown t:fabove. Heavy white crepe is used for the garments, the unrelieved white- achieving smartness. through its tailored lines.