A phenomenon of 'birth dooms many famous houses
'Daughters, yes,
but no sons
A
SHORTAGE of boy self, a daughter of a marquis babies has hit many of whose house is extinct, was one five sisters who had one
of
Britain's titled families, brother.
at
and some lines may now This brother was killed in become extinct.
the 1914 War, Lady Dart-
вод was killed In other cases a remote mouth's
Alamein. kinsman must inherit and
Most unfortunte among the save the name. The heredi- baronets a Yorkshireman Sir tary fortune развев
to Kenelm Cayley, 10th of the line, HL forebears were daughters,
Dukes, marquises, and carls are as much affected as the holders of baronet
cies, for the failure to pro- duce male heirs has notably increased in. all ranks of nobility.
And the war wiped ou many only sons.
A strange thing has oc- curred.
An abundance of daugh- ters have been born to lead- ing noblemen in recent years.
followers of the Conqueror.
In the 21 усага of their mar ried life his wife has provided seven daughters.
baronet, may see
Sir Geoffrey Byass, the second his family lose the title only a generation after it was granted. He has five daughters,
Stopped ́dolc
But strangest case of all is Sir Anthony Doughty-Tich- borne, at 30 head of a family tamed in Hampshire for more than 1,000 years,
From 1150 an annual dole of
A study of the new edition flour was given to the poor by
of Debrett's Peerage,
out shortly, makes clear.
Female
strain
The 42-year-old Duke
SOILS
the Tichborne kalghis and due bara
baronets
to ward off a curse this prophesying that seven
would be born, followed by seven daughters, and the name would die.
with
of dole.
In 1794 Sir Henry Tichborne, seven sons, stopped the Seven daughters were Norfolk, the premier duke, bo to his heir. And, it is may see his title pass to the sand, the full effect of the curse! outer fringes of the family. He was averted only by restarting has four daughters and so far the dole.
no son.
The duchess is only 34, but
In 1947 its distribution was again threatened when the
there is a predominant female Ministry of Food temporarily strain in the family.
withheld 我 special issue of bread coupons.
Although the rich Duke of Westminster has beeff married our times, none of his wives has presented him with a boy,
The
Today Sir Anthony is the of three young father
duke at 71 has two daughters. If no son is forth- daughters
whe cannot per coming the house will assured- petuate the line. A 55-year-old ly end.
cousin is the heir, and his only
child is a girl.
BOTH
only
Portland,
Rox-
with
Flor
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1951.
“Slimming recipes will pay off better than odes this spring."
London Herrer Service
the
They say “Lucky” Luciano rules
underworld
all
of America, but he won't have it at
'Just the old spaghetti
man from Palermo'
HARLES
("LUC
KY") LUCIANO |||
says his past is dead, but it refuses
+
War spurt.
Can
the nobility find com-
to lle down.
Fifteen years and a Sing
a war? The answer is no.
by PETER_DACRE
his death. Not even a distant every 1,000 girls.
ple. they numbered 1,001 to ca in 1946 he has tried to no is the head of a gigan-
cousin exists to ald him. Similarly,
the Earl of Stam-
& runs
Ho
The Dukes of Atholl, Beau- fort, Leeds, Newcastle, North- umberland, burghe,
Rutland, St Albant, fort in the theory that "more Sing prison sentence ago be
A report just issued in They forced him into a car, with tape, and Sutherland beast not one boys than girls are born after
was called New York's the United States by a sealed his mouth
manacled his hands and legs and is true that more boys Public Enemy No. 1.. Since Senate Crime Investigating left him for dead on a beach, The house of the 36-year-old than girls are born in any year being deported from Ameri- Committee says that Lucis- Marquis of Cambridge,
recovered consciousnes a daughter, may end at From 1947 to 1949, for exam-
and staggered a mile to a police persuade the world he is tic underworld organisation box. When asked who did it, he "second said: "That's my business, and But the
Registrar-General's just an
honest spaghetti which
Government" in America. I'll take care of it." founded by the office told me: "The after-the maker.
spurt in boys is an old
His luck ran out, however, uncle of Lady Jane Grey, will wor
wives' tale."
But the forces of law and, The complex set-up which when a young Public Prosecutor What do the geneticists order have refused to be- they claim he rules from named Tom Dowey was given Professor Julian Huxley lieve that a wily old leo Italy enforces its own laws, £100,000 and a froe
carries out its "Lucky"! "It is just a matter of pard chance, Heiresses marrying in-change. They have suspect- tions, and raises its
old families are not likely led him of many things. to produce many children be cause they themselves could not have come from
ford's house,
The Earl
of Huntingdon's title
was created suture thng, 400 years ago, but he is twice wed without a son, Three daughters are powerless to save the line.
think?
said:
10
of
A pronounced instance the endurance of the daughter-. strain is the Countess of Dart- mouth.
Sho has presented. the 70- year-old carl with five daughters and only one son. She her-
like
can
hand to
own execu- clean up crime.
own taxes from millions of dol- lars paid as "Ice," or pro-" Now, however, he has tection money. families, but the fertility of all
largo been accused of something
But "Lucky" described which makes his previous of us has declined".
exploits look like mere all this briefly as "plain Sidney Rodin juvenile delinquency.
bunk."
"If somebody.slips on banana skin, the cops call me in to find out if I'm selling bananas," he once said.
Traced him
BITTING 'Right and wrong way
Chapman Pincher explains those mysterious aches.
HOW
NOT ΤΟ
GET SO TIRED
LOOK at
above
ONE: Measure the angle un-
ly a right anglo,
der the ribs, It should be near-
But he was still suspect. When he arrived in Cuba with a body- Capone's guard and met Al brother, the American Bureau of Narcotics had him quickly bundled out.
Ho arrived in Italy wearing a belt glittering with his name in diamonds. several backbooks, gold ingots, £250 in notes
100 ties
Оп
'In, peace'
and
the boat he boasted that he had £20,000,000 lodged in American banks.
"Now I want to live in1 peace and make spaghetti," he said. But his reputation was too big. It was first suspected that an American trying to smuggle cocaine was one of his leuten- unts.
"The way they talk about my Dewey launched a series of Talds and collected to witnesses. lieutenants, I got more than the Luciano vanished, but Dewey army," complained Luciano. traced him to Arkansas. A power-
Then he was thought to be ful battery of lawyers "gut connected with £300,000 of Luciano classed as a local pri-, heroin seized on an Italian liner. soner.
Once he spent nine days in, a When the sheriff refused to. Rome prison. hand him over, 20. State Rangers "Lucky's. Latest craze is to invaded the prison at dawn to get. become a racehorse owner, him.
“If you want to know some- thing about me go and ask the
200
Luciano has done nothing Luciano was taken to another police. They will tell you every- to persuade people that he prison where he tipped the bar thing there is to think. As far as
ber the equivalent of a pound a the American Senato la has changed. He spends shave. He gave the gaoleracemed, if they want to talk with TWO: Measure the girth of much more than his bakery pound every time he bought me all they have to do is to send the stomach. It should be less in Palermo and other visible cigarettes. than the girth of the fully expanded chest. When it is two inches greater you have reached
the fatoess donger-point.
Now how to correct and prevent faulty posture
TATE flat on your back-
on the floor or од В table- the picture bladder trouble, for instance. with chio In the man sit sluggish.
The digestive system becomes and the hands clasped behind ting badly, the girl sitting There's medical news, too, the
neck. correctly from head to toe. about "lumbago," Many cases of Breathe deeply slowly Standing with a slouch crippling pain previously classed and
us lumbago, fibrosiile sciatica, without letting. and slumping in a chair do and neurills are really due to the far more than merely take spinal trouble.
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the spring out of your step.
New
medical ¡ findings
Those discs
STANDING
assets could provide.
At his trial in New York, the
He lives in a fine apart. court was guarded with machine guns, Dewey recused Luciano ment with his wife, a of being one of the biggest illegal former night-club dancer importers of drugs. called Igea Lissone.
He dresses with a conser- vative but expensive touch. Head waiters treat him de- ferentially.
Racket era
Tackets,
He said he was the "overlond" of 800 to 1,000 women, and bead of a huge Italian lottery.
Luciano's Heutenants, sald Dewey, operated various indus-
trial rackets.
Deported
me a visa. I am ready to go.”
No film
"Lucky" goes to Mass every started Sunday. Recently he negotiations with an Italian Alm to produco‘a Alm of Italian gangsters in America.
He said he was ready to put
company
up £30,000 on two conditions:
That they used his own in which the gangster script
his proves
innocence and triumphs;
That Igea Lissone was given the female lead.
But Luciano must live down Не WAR convicted on 02 his post. In his day he was charges, of white slavery, and symbolic of the American era of went to Sing Sing for 30 to 50 The film company said, "No" stomach
tommy-guns and of protection years. Ten years later, how as the plot was too reminiscent, bulge
the or
ever, he was released and de-
"Lucky" is free to go wherever lower part of
When the law 'caught up with ported because he had given in- he likes in Italy, only Rome be your back it Right and terons him in 1930 he was said to be formation which helped the ing out of bounds off the floor.
making £2,400,000 a your from Allles' Invason of Sicily. have convinced doctors that TUE bobbin-shaped segments
A police spokesman said: “As faulty posture can
of the spine are separated LIE on your back with hands vice of various kinda.
Columnist Walter Winchell far as we are concerned Lucky", CALIFE y dises which serve as shock, 4 by the sides. Bend one knee] complaints ranging from absorbers. Long-standing faulty up over
He was born Salvatore Lucania solemnly declared that when has been going straight." the chest, straighten in the little Sicilian village of, "Lucky", died he would get the backache to varicose veins, posture may force these discs out the leg, then lower it slow Lecari Fridal His father was Congressional Medal of Honour. and is responsible for more out of shape.
ly, keeping your back fattened
哋 honest carpenter, who weariness and nagging pain Eventually one of them may against the floor and the stomach than any other trouble, press on a nerve, producing in tucked in. Do the same with the grated
other leg and repeat ten times. tense pain. This is what doctors The doctors say that putting call a "slipped disc."
SIT on a hard cfsair, adopt" with 3 can rapidly imt it in localed low in the ing the proper sitting posture rackets. He used murder, arvon, posture right prove your mental outlook and spine, you get backache and shown in the sketch. With hands blackmail and assault to or strengthen your resistance to Rambago paina is ness particularly important up, the pain may seem to be th
on hips, broathe deeply, raisingganise vice on a bigger scale and keeping the than the notorious Al Capone in benefits in this dangerous and fibrositis of the shoulder
Chiengo.
depressing month.
......
stomach in.
America when |
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Salvatore was ten
Salvatore became mixed up and drugs
protection
If you feel you have been told neckache, or even headache. all this before look at the new trouble is
The best way to favold such | STAND with heels four to -At the Waldorf-Astoria in New by practising the six inches away from a wall. York he lived surrounded by
and standing Flatten the lower part of the henchmen much as schoolmasters used to say to us.
nature, the head and shoulders touching Bull") Pinnochio, ant
VATARS Davis.
Cockeye
findings which endorse'all' our' correctpatible, so back against the wall, keeping Louis. Jo Jo, Tommy"`" ("Tho
Big_part
Surrender
Little
positions that they become: Bequ See sketches. TRST, a tough internal mom Shoulders.should be relaxed- brane called the diaphragm not drooping on braced back,
Remember....... plays a bis part in proper Keep the back almost fat with
in droopy, and, over the tire orked in, kuets LUNALLY here l ́a-posture Up breathing. fat folk who breathe largely braced and the outer borders
trom: Middlesex Hospital with their stomach muscles, the your feet carrying the weight diaphragin gets iEKY A
These postures; also tone Researchers UMA E
muscles, keeping them
Never lift anything heavy of Doctors now know that the the diaphragm also works as an alightly tensed so that they can the door without bending your Maxillary pumps helping to fores: go into motion at moment's Noors. When the back in bent blood round the body. When the notice Muppet into a sharp curve the straialt are through," he told them. They
handed over their businesses, un sarity, find out. 11. quddenly, thien, of the strong messa heart in robbed of its help the You ou
where it should He has been cal circulation murerm varicose veins your posture bad. Stangas batas muscide
(you do normallywonor as you call), and" {(6) krown, on to
grounds nita, which are much “17Da
ohe day ho summoned the Big our of New York vice to a ro Ataurant. They rose deferential-
when he walked in. Try ou
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