THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1939
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RAYS MAKE
BEEF TENDER
Tough beef may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new "tenderising” process claimed to have been developed at Pittsburg, U.S.A.
It will reduce the cost of tender beef to a price with- in reach of all consumers. Up till now only carefully "hung" meat which had spent four to eight weeks in expensive storage would nor- mally be certain to be really tender, but with the new process all cuts can be raised one grade in taste, with natural flavour, juiciness and food values retained.
For the first time since 1914, re- cruiting placards are to be seen at the base of Nelson's Column, With the guardian British lion in the foreground surely. Lord........Nelson's famous words "England expects this day that every man will do his duty" is in keeping with the present critical period.
64,000 STITCHES MADE
A PICTURE
Radiations from a special ultra- violet lamp enable chemists to has- ten. the natural break-down of tough connective fibres in meat- the cause of tough steaks-by ap- plying relatively high temperatures and humidity in an atmosphere free of bacteria and mould spores.
Meat formerly had always to be hung in a place cool enough to pre- vent its spoiling while it ripened.
BIGGEST VILLAGE
BECOMES TOWN
Corby, Northants, Britain's big- gest village, became a town when its Parish Council surrendered authority to the newly elected Ur- ban Council,
Corby has population of 12,000: residents have been agitating for three years for Urban status.
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BRAVED PLAGUE
L.C.C. TRAINING ARMY COOKS-At the request of the Army authorities, a twelve weeks' course for Army cooks is being held at the Westminster Technical Institute of the L.C.C. Better cooks mean better food for Tommy and everything possible is being done to im- prove conditions for the modern soldier. learning how to carve a lamb.
BOYS MAKE FILMS
"Directed by Stinker Jones: Scenario by Buster Brown; Photo- graphy by Nobby Smith."
If you read on a cinema screen this prelude to a detective film in which all the actors are schoolboys, you will know that a film has found its way from the store-room at the Evelyns Senior School at Hilling- don (Middlesex).
Photo shows the cooks
U.S.A. "DISGRACE"
America's death-rate from ap- pendicitis is "a national dis- grace," Dr. R. Reed, of the Uni- versity of Cincinnati, told a sur- gical congress at Atlanta, U.S.A. "The annual toll is between 25,- Or it might be a travel film, or one shot on a sports field or at Bil-000 and 30,000, and victims are mostly young, healthy adults," he (with- Joseph lingsgate Market showing
said. out sound) how London's fish sup-' ply is handled.
Major-General Dennis Collins, who while serving with the Indian Medical Service in 1900 risked his life fighting the plague in Bombay, died at his home in Sutton. Surrey,
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COUNTY WATER SUPPLY
Mrs. M. Sims, of Hendon, has made ten tapestry pictures, the last one taking seven months to com- MAY BE RATIONED plete. When she had finished it she counted the stitches, were 64,400!
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At Evelyns School they have their WEST END PLAY TAKEN OFF own cinema and film camera, and,
under the direction of Mr. C. H. After a run of only five nights,' Clarke, a teacher who is a skilled "Lady Fanny," which opened at the film technician, they have produced Duke of York's Theatre, London, fine pictures to augment education- W. C., was withdrawn. A
Recent short runs in the West al films..
On the stocks at the moment is a End include "So English," which Rationing, of water is threatened screen story to be shot at Swanage, ran only five nights last November, But one thing is. certain. There "Give Me Yesterday," withdrawn in North Staffordshire, where the
The after four nights in August, and Potteries Water Board, has issued will be no female players.
girls of the school have frequently "Sexes and Sevens," which also an appeal for strict economy. A Shorthorn cow belonging to
The supply is drawn mainly from tried to crash in, but "No dames" lasted only five nights last July. Mr. C. Bond, West Hoathly (Sus- artesian wells, and the yield from is the boys' unshakable resolution. sex) has given birth to twin calves the wells has fallen considerably WOMEN WANT POLAR TRIP for the third time in six years. following several dry seasons.
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The use of water for washing cars and for watering tennis courts,
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Nearly 800 women have written
A freak lamb with three mouths, bowling greens and gardens is to Sir Hubert Wilkins, the famous two under the ears, has. been born banned. to a ewe owned by Mr. P. Burgess.
Labourers in Broomfield (Somer- set) have no excuse for not cul- tivating their gardens, for gifts of garden tools are made to them every Easter from a fund bequeathed. some years ago, Another Broom- field charity provides for six poor men and six poor women to receive
dinner of roast beef, vegetables and plum pudding on Easter Day.
DIVORCE ARREARS. DOWN.
When the High Court. for the Easter
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London police courts:- Motorist at Highgate: I drive carefully that brakes are practi- cally superfluous,
Woman at Acton: I don't see why my husband should get be hind" with his payments to me, I've never got behind with the re-
Your
Australian explorer, offering to ac- company him on his projected
voyage
marto the Arctic in a sub-
Altogether he has re-, ceived 4,800 applications to join him on his trip. -.
In an interview in Sydney, Sir Hubert said he hoped to set off next year.. He plans to "slide" under the ice in a submersible vessel of a new design.
HUNTERS KILLED
IN BLIZZARD
Greenland'a Administration Board has received information from which it must be assumed that the Nanok Company's, two hunters, stationed at Hochstetter, must have died while making n - to Mornstédhus, on the rth-east coastcore H
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