THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 30, 1940
MUTT AND JEFF:
BOY, YOU CERTAINLY ARE DUMB). DON'T :
YOU KNOW THẤT FIVE AND FIVE
ARE TEN?
YEH, THAT'S
WHAT I SAID! TEN, YOU DIDN'T HEAR ME, GUESS!
OH, YEAH? HOW MUCH IS SIX AND FOUR?
·ER- ELEVEN!
ELEVEN?
SIX AND FOURWELL, IF
ELEVEN?
MIT AIN'T
ELEVEN
WHAT
IS IT?
SIX AND FOUR
ARE TEN!
TEN?
JUST A- MINUTE AGO YOU TOLD ME FIVE AND FIVE
ARE TEN!
Page
By BUD FISHER
PHOOEY?
AND YOU GOT THE NERVE TO CALL ME DUMB!
'NEEDS BRAVERY
ΤΟ TAKE LIFE'
"It requires a brave man to take his life, and sometimes I feel like do- ing it," was a remark at- tributed to a man found dead in a car with a young
married teacher.
CHILDREN FIND AMERICA IS 'HOME FROM HOME'
Britain's little war evacuees are finding that America is just a "home from home."
Already they have won their way into the hearts of the people of the United States, who are calling. them "the best Ambassadors of goodwill Britain could have."
Typical of the generous way in which they are treated is the fact that each time one of the boys visits the barber he is given-much to his delight a "smashing” haircut, which normally costs 2s. a time.
Like Home
The couple had been gassed by
And the children have their, leading. exhaust fumes from the car, conquests, too. Not only do they Where the brick and granite --which was standing on a grass use the English designation for skyscrapers of New York disap- verge at a Cheshire beauty spot, breakfast food - porridge - but pear into the grassy beginnings Suicide while the balance of they have now also accustomed of the suburbs some two dozen their minds were disturbed were Americans to use it.
evacuated British children... are the verdicts recorded on Mrs. Joan
contentedly adjusting themselves Pauleen Comley Brayshaw, 'twen-
to life in the United States, states ty-eight, tutor at a Manchester
the lotter. business college, living in a hos- These are some of the facts dis- tel, and whose home was in closed in a letter from the Unit- Stapeley, Nantwich, and David, ed. States Committee for the Care Smyth, twenty-four, firm's agents, of European children of New of West Circular Road, Belfast, York, describing the happy. well-ed States are finding their first.in lodging at Brighton Grove Rus-, cared-for lives the children are a strange land comfortably free
holme, Manchester.
The East Cheshire Coroner Mr. J. A. K. Ferns, said his own view was that the couple's action was selfish. They had left great sor- row for others.
The woman's husband, Alfred. 'Joseph 'Brayshaw, told the coroner that his wife became a tutor in a Manchester business college about six months after their marriage: on March 20, 1937, **-.
...The neat, red-brick, two- storey houses aro not unlike scenes of their homeland. These young guests of the Unit
the
from sharp changes, because the husband on Aprii. 20 this year. Gould Foundation, one of
John - Lingard, a schoolmas-reception centres of the United ter, said he knew of Smyth's States Committee for the Care association with Mrs. Bray-of European Children, is like 2 shaw, He had heard them say private home. that they loved each other. On!? occasion they had threatened to↓ take their lives. Smyth was in financial difficulties and drink- ing heavily,
· Clifford Edgar Foote, electrician, The 'marriage was happy un-entertain. Navy. “A” at Boundary til: September, 1939, " when' the won. At 3 pm. Police "A" will wife met Smyth: She left her Street. -
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Each child has his own bed, linen, blankets, and pillows. and there are desks and book. cases, rugs on the floor, plc- tures, on the walls, and ample cupboard space for clothing. But the. Foundation is just af temporary stopping-place where the children stay until they have. adjusted themselves a bit to the new world they are in and unti their medical and health exami nations are completed.
At present: the children in re- sidence range in age from four to fifteen. There is a house mo- ther for every five of them and the older ones look after the youngest ones voluntarily,
Rising hour is 7.30. By 8, the children are bathed and -dressed and ready for their "American.” breakfast of fruit, cereal, cocon or milk, and bread and butter.
Lessons Too
After breakfast beds, are made, the rooms tidied, and then the children go to school,
the
After a mid-day meal the. Uttle ones nap, while the older ones return to school until 3.
·A·light supper is served at 5 p.m., and at 6 o'clock youngest children are off to bed. The retiring hour is staggered, older children retiring at 7 and 8, and the oldest group remain- ing up till 9.30.
Between breakfast and bed time each day each child drinks a quart of milk, a standard quirement in the-dietary regime.
“Club” Is Popular
re-
Radio is a source of much en- Joyment to the youngsters, Many of them are hearing orchestras with which they became familiar. et home: Chinese checkers and cribbage are, the favourite even- ing games.
- Saturday is a holiday, and Sun- day the children attend services in the churches of their own de- nomination."
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