THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 31, 1939
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The clown has to do all his own make-up, frequently in crowded cornera where his fellows jostle him and pinch his powder and paint. These pictures show Ernie La Plante, Poplar born clown, now with Krone's circus at the. Agricul- tural Hall, London. The completed make-up of Ernie La Plante pro- vides a striking camera study.
LIFEBOATS SAVED. 546
LAST YEAR
TELL DAD OF FIRST LOVE, SAY DOCTORS
Girls of sixteen and seventeen should tell Dad of their first love. And Dad, if he prides himself on being an ideal father, should listen.
His advice might avert tragedy.
The men who want girls to be frank with father are. Dr. D. H. Geffen, medical officer of Enfield, Middlesex, and his deputy, Dr. W. D. Hyde.
The lifeboat service broke two re- cords in 1938. Its lifeboats were launched to the rescue more often, and they saved or helped to save from destruction more boats and vessels than ever before in their history of 115 years.
There were 483 launches--fifteen more than the previous, record in 1936. Lifeboats helped eighty-eight NON-STOP WORLD FLIGHT vessels (twice as many as in 1937) and stood by another 250 vessels,· The number of lives rescued came to 546..
* * * PAID HOLIDAYS ON FARMS
Out-voting farmers at a meeting of the Kent Argriculture Wages Committee at Maidstone, union of- ficials and workers' representa- tives. won holidays with pay for Kent farm workers, both men and women. Every farmer present vot- ed against the resolution.
* ** ** PUBLICAN BANS DRINK
Mr. A. H. Bricker, of Crewe, keeps a public house but he's also Mayor of Crewe. He was on the Bench a few days ago, when a man, accused of maliciously dare aging the premises of his former employer, pleaded that he was un- der the influence of drink when he committed the offence. So, with a fellow magistrate, he bound the man over on cendition that he took no drink for a year. And he added the advice, “Keep away from drink if it is going to get the better of you."
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SLUMS SCORE IN KEEPING
RHEUMATISM AWAY
Photo shows La Plante smearing the dead white on his face-the base for the bright make-up.
Brigade
Commander Mikhail Gromov, the Soviet airman, is plan- ning a flight round the world to re- capture his non-stop long-distance record from the Royal Air Force. Gromov and his companions flew over the North-Pole 6,306 miles
to California. The from Moscow R.A.F. flyers broke this record with their 7,162-mile flight from Egypt to Australia,
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M.P.'S ENLIST ÁS PRIVATES
Five of the younger members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly have answered the call for defence force recruits by en- listing in the ranks,
Clowns have made up like this for centuries. Here is Ernie La Plante completing his make-up (like that of the great Grimaldi). TROLLEYBUSES OUSTING.
Dr. R. Cove-Smith, the inter- national Rugby player and now · physician in charge of rheuma- tism at the Hospital for Sick Child- ren, declared at the winter school for health visitors at Bedford Col- lege that poverty stricken families herded together in slum areas showed less rheumatism than those TRAMS "just above" the poverty line. Con-.
by 67,435,785, or 15.70 per cent.
They have written a joint paper. on the duties of the ideal father.
It was read by Dr. Hyde at the Winter School for Health Visitors and School Nurses at Bedford Col- lege for Women, Regent's Park.
The problems of adolescence, Dr. Hyde said, might be tragic were seldom forgotten.
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PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London police courts:
Husband at Willesden: . They say marriages are made in heav en All I can say is that my life hasn't been heavenly since I got married.
Through
Wife at Tottenham: my mother's generosity my hus- band has only been put out twice since we came to live with her.
Witness at Wimbledon: Ан usual, the women started the trouble and the men joined in.
R.A.F. MEN RETURN
FROM PARADISE'
A party of R.A.F. officers and men have returned to Singapore after spending Christmas and New Year as guests of Queen Ishlon, monarch of the Nicobar Islands,
It was desirable for a girl of six- primiitive paradise in the Indian teen or seventeen to talk to her Ocean. They had been sent there to father about the youth with whom repair one of the Short Sunderland she thought she had fallen in love. flying boats. which had made a
"If children do not consider it forced landing there.
He reddens his nose. La Plante, like all clowns, makes up very quickly and is deft at obtaining the right effect.
As the only white men on the is- lands, they were entertained with war-dances and a "royal regatta," with native canoes, by the Queen. Calico and coconuts are the only currency in the islands. Since these are not R.A.F. issue, the party was unable to buy anything, and received their supplies by air from Singapore. The currency question cut both ways. When the natives clamoured to buy an outbroad mo- tor which the R.A.F. men had fit- ted to a canoe, they were silenced by the announcement of the price -600,000 coconuts.
Nicobar Islands twelve in- hàbited, seven uninhabited-in the Bay of Bengal, is a British protec- torate. Population about 8,000. One coconut tree yields about sixty nuts a year!
MILL THREAT
necessary to ask their parents' con- sent to marriage to-day, they should, nevertheless, be desirous of discuss- Many of the mills at Nelson ing a possible marriage with their (Lancs) may close owing to an in- father, if he has always shown fluenza epidemic. At the local himself to be understanding and Weavers' Insurance Association approachable.
Office, certificates for incapacity "On the other hand, there is a
owing to influenza have been ar- tendency in all classes for the riving at the rate of fifty a day.
younger generation to wait until not only comfort but even luxury can be assured before embarking upon marriage.
"Such a course is unwise, both nationally and physically, and wise father should not hesitate to encourage his children to marry when they have sufficient on which to live decently."
Dr. Hyde, speaking of the ideal father's duties in the early years › of marriage, said that before and during the first months of
his. child's life, he must be sympathetic and. tolerant..
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He must be prepared to give up much of his leisure to his wife, and try to regulate his outings to those in which his wife can share-
MUST NOT WASTE WOOD
sidering the incidence of the dis- Trolleybuses are driving tramb ease, he added, it seemed better to off the roads of British cities and Nazi housewives have been warn- live in stuffy, warm, over-crowded towns. Ministry of Transport re- ed to economise in the use of fire slum conditions than in a cold, turns on tramway and trolleybus wood. Wood, they are reminded, is damp, now council house,
Two or three swipes of red are sufficient, for the lips.
A “KING" RETIRES:
Known as the "King of the Garw Valley," Mr. Llewellyn Jones, J.P., is retiring after, fifty years as guide, philosopher and friend to the 25,000 folk in this district of Glamorgan. Mr. Jones, who started under takings, other than those of a very important raw material not work as a colllery blacksmith, ad- Dr. Cove-Smith said that rheuma London Passenger Transport Board, only for fuel, building purposes ministers nearly thirty organisd- tism often started with a sore show that last year, tramway pas- and the making of furniture, but as tions: Hia loyal subjects in Gar throat and therefore no sore throat senger journeys decreased by 117,- a basis for the manufacture of syn- Valley will pay homage to him to should he neglected, particularly if 600,881, or 4.75 per cent, compared thetic motor fuel, artificial sik, night and tribute, too the child also had so-called "grow
grow with the previous year, while trol, paper pulp, cloth and even of food- Juminated Address, wället of ing pains...
leybus passenger journeys increased stuffa,
notes allà a cabinet, a