THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1939
News Snack Bar
DIGESTION IS HELPED BY GRACE AT TABLE
THE VICTORIAN INSISTENCE ON “Grace before and after meat" was an excellent aid to digestion.
So, in effect, Mr. W. L. Sumner, Lecturer on the Science of Health at University College, Nottingham, told a session of the Imperial Social Hygiene Congress in Lon- don. Mr. Sumner, whose paper was read, said that Victor- ian table manners were ridiculed in most quarters to-day.
NEWS THEY DON'T FRONT PAGE IN BERLIN
Luxembourg, Aug. 4.
Five German workmen, em- ployed on the Siegfried Line, do- serted into Luxembourg to-day. S. S. Guards fired on them as they escaped along the wooded track to the border.
The men have volunteered to join the French Foreign, Loġion. —Our Own Correspondent.
Goldfish is a "Toy" in
Law
"This is unfortunate, although there is no need to stress the often insincere rigidity of those days. Restraint dur- Ing a meal and a pause afterwards both aid good digestion and efficiency." Mr. Sumner deplored the "poverty of idea" shown in the 2s. or 2s. 6d. lunch provided by the average British cafe for business men. He wrote:
"I cannot help but compare the ten or twelve-franc lunch which I used to get in Montmarte (or even : the cheaper one in the Latin quarter
Two artists sketching a peaceful old farm at Overton, Hants.
of Paris) with the average English £10,000 Dowry for
half-crown meal.”
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Hair For Rearming
Every German
hairdresser
Princess Irene
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Greece has given a dowry of £10,000° to Princess Irene
The Princess must was married to the Duke of Spoleto, send all hair clippings to Dusseldorf, cousin of Italy's King Victor Em- the collecting centre for Western Ger- manuel, in Florence. many. Short snippets are
the making of explosives.
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Duke to Visit the City
London's City Corporation is invit ing the Duke of Kent to visit the The Clerkenwell magistrate
Guildhall in order to receive an ad- (Mr. W. J. H. Broderick) has ruled that a dress from the City of London-before goldfish was a toy. The legal problem going to Australia to take up the posi-
tion of Governor-General.
sum-
was raised when a man was moned under L.C.C. by-laws for car- rying on the business of a rag and
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bone dealer and distributing "a cer- Arms Dump Found in
tain toy" (a goldfish) in exchange for
rags. The man promised not to Church offend again, and the magistrate dis- missed him under the Probation of Offenders' Act.
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Nest of Many Sites
Workmen at the
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railway station at Montgomery have become professional rest-movers, a result of the activities of a pair of robins,
The birds built their nest on a
near
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Sword of Victory for Franco
A sword of victory embossed with rubles and diamonds and costing £6,000, is to be presented to General Franco. Each province in Spain is contributing toward the cost. The gift is to be ready by October 12,
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Whist Drive A Day To Keep Fit
of
PRESENTED- FROM COURT
From London police courts. Woman at South London: saw my two neighbours fighting. As the taller one was getting the beat of it I went to her ald.
Witness at Marylebone: If this woman had not persisted In In- torforing in a friendly quarrel nothing would have happened to her.
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Man at Tottenham:
She said much that my breath was taken away. When, the police- man came up all I could say was, "I've been wronged.”
Witness at Hammersmith: stopped and asked two women the way. By the time I left them my engine was stone, cold and would not start.
Chilean police investigating a plot Stanley-street, Moss Side, Manchester,
In thirty years, Mr. Jackson, to overthrow the Government dis has attended more than 9,000 whist covered a munitions depot in a church drives. She has lost count of the Secret Meetings
Santiago. Fifteen rifles seventy pistols were seized. Dr. Soto must be nearing four figures by now.
and number of her prizes.
but it Parada, a high official of the Army Medical Service, Signor Claudio Her- cera, an employee of the Bank of Spain, and nearly a dozen other per sons have been arrested.-Reuter.
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Smith, at 8
The existence of a society in Ger- "A whist drive a day keeps the many which "did not glorify doctor away," is her health rule. And Nazi regime" and held secret meet-
the so she spends every evening of the ings in a quiet little church week at whist drive. Sometimes she revealed by Miss K. attends an afternoon whist drive, too. meeting at Doncaster.
Even when she's away from home she never misses her evening's enter
"Whist-drives are my keep classes," says Mrs. Jackson, who, seventy-five, looks по more than fifty.
railway wagon in the siding at the Atlantic Bid in 50-Year- the eve
station. Every time the wagon has
to be taken away--and it has hap- Old BoatTM pened six times now-they remove the nest and place it on another wagon in the same position.
Five Esthonian students from, the nautical college at Reval arrived in
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The members went into church few at a time. Once inside they look- ed as though they were praying. Act- fit ually they were carrying on
their at business in low whispers.
Until a year ago she was a cham-
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Hobby Of Exams
The nest has remained intact the Tagus (Portugal) in a small bat pion bowls player, too. She started Schoolgirl. Makes A through all its moving and five fled- tered sailing boat fifty years old, on playing when she was sixty, and was glings soon will be ready to leave the their way to New York. They left champion of her club after her seven-
Reval on June 19, and will continue tieth birthday. their voyage by way of the Canaries, Madeira, the Azores and Bermuda. Biggest Lake For They will secure a prize for the trip.
nest.
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Prevents "Monotony
if they reach New York by the end of August.
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From London police courts:
Scotland
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Sitting for examinations is the hob-.' by of a twelve-year-old Caernarvon- shire girl who has sat for seven, and succeeded in all, in the last four months.
for
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Some people may choose to pickle. their own eggs, otherwise a week's
Britain's biggest artificial lake her an ambition to be a schoolteacher Her passion for exams has given supply of fresh eggs can be kept in Presented from Court £300,000 reservoir built in the valley because, as she says: stock and continuously replaced.
amid the Stirlingshire hills--is to be As it might not be possible to get
opened by Mr. John Colville, Secre- exams. As a schoolmistress. I could "I would hate to give up sitting for baker's bread, cream of tartar and Witness at Strafford: When I found tary of State. for Scotland." balding soda are included to make he had taken the gas boller away, F. The scheme-planned by the Stirl, not compete myself."
at least set them for other people, if soda bread with the dried milk and wrote to him asking him to return ingshire and Falkirk Water Board→ water.
the boller at once, and enclosed a has taken almost four years to com-
The girl with the strange hobby Sample recipes for one meal are stamped addressed envelope.
child is Rhiannon. Williams, of plete. Damming given. During the first day or two, Motorist at Tower Bridge: There the River Carron and diverting its
ne head waters of Church-lane, Caernarvon. plain biscuits, chocolate, raisins, corn- were two cyclists riding three abreast course by building a rampart of un- was the tomboy of the family. Then When she was younger Rhiannon ed beef, sardines and tinned tomatoes Defendant at Willesden: When I hewn boulders, concrete and stone, suddenly she developed this strange give ample choice without cooking. was arrested I had two full bottles of engineers have finally Imprisoned the
Tomatoes, it is pointed out, are es bear in my pocket. The police took waters, in a four-mile lake with sential, both because of their vitamin them away. When they gave them capacity of 4,800,000,000 gallons. content and also because of their use back to me in the morning the bot Unhewn boulders were preferred to ful flavouring qualities in an other- ties were empty.
concrete, the engineers claiming wise rather ionotonous fare..
Witness at Tottenham: I don't know stone was less liable to crack Glass-stored foods have been avoid what she was saying about me, but the terrific strain. The dam, founda,
as she moved off she gave me a look tions are bullt into the living that told me everything.
ed because glass is breakable and tia is Hot
It money is 10
such as tongue san corned beef.
The quantity of water.
Van-driven at West Ham: Did I ley, It is estimated
stop immediately?
Shortly before that.
Well, no
cover the whole of the town of DaLLERS
enthusiasm.
engerness
undergo what ordinary child, be an mily. But they
her
her