The Venus Figure Of The Average American Woman
New York.
The average American woman is short and
a little chubby-just like Venus de Milo, a male fashion expert said.
"A lot of people think Venus is statuesque,' he said, "but that is only because she was immor talised in a statue."
The armloss Venus in the Louvre in Paris Actually stands only five
feet, four
inches tall, dress manufac- turer
ported.
Abe
Schrader re-
That made her
just slightly taller than the
average
he said.
American woman.
test
Schrader rack the Agures, bad 1211 Merent of more than 18,000 women of morted slapis utal mazes, show 87 per cent standi live fret live
Inchies and under, he said.
}{sw¢ཐཱ**; how the average
measures tip with Venus, accord-
They Don't
Trust His Facts
Although He's
A Tourist Guide
A two-hour tou
Ing to Schaaster Veria ban a 37- !sightseeing
Montreal.
On
21
provides
inch but, a 20-ish waist, 30-tourists to Canada's metro- inets
The ate anger American woman. Jus
B. 62-matt 1.
lupe, 22 bare ha muges, 13.2-polis with a capsule history. inch can attach akte
lesson, but historians az 15-sone of the "Tarls" related Incis wa 1, 38 832-ize la hoje, 22.24-by the mail with the mega- 13-45 h alves phone are of dubious value. In any case, however, touring
inch and 131 h ankles
Flir average weanag to wait, nut¦ visitors probably know wat in- He the aytona tarateris toondekjteresting things about Montresi Terberger than many of the city's residents,
of Bgure,
who has 4)
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very
Schrader pezmatima,
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"The models are shunt ad passed through the rushionabir i the way down the ine." he puri, and
Englanti- predominumntly
"but the Brst thing to remen-speaking west-e suburb of
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, ` JULY 17, 1954.
SİDE GLANCES By Galbraith
| Cap 1944 by NIA
"say she locks like you. Pop-oxcept that you got a little race bair on tho sidna!"
White Collar Workers Get Together
Mubourne.
The Council of White Collar Association WAS formed to represent 10 professional and clertoni workers groups here, with П memberstup of about $4,000.
The White Collar Counoll Is headed by E. J. Gilles- plc, president of the Aus tralian Insurance
Stalls Fedoration.
Ina Secretary, R. D. Williams. secretary of the Australian Bank Officials Association,
and
Other unions included in
the council are those of the bank officials, muniel-
trusted officers, pal
com- Dany officers, selentifle and tech- nicul workers, federated olerks, and archlicots, sur- veyors and draftsmen. United Press.
Funneed recently.
Wanted: A Doctor for remote parts of Canada said BMA Ad.
A
YEAR OF ADVENTURE, THOUGHT MARY PERCY
But She's Been There Ever Since!
Edmonton, Alberta.
What was originally intended as a year of adventure in Alberta's northern wilderness has turned into 15 years' service to settlers of the Battle River country for Dr Mary Percy Jackson.
Dr Jackson arrived in Alborta in 1929 in response to an advertisement in
a British Medical Journal,
The demands of rugged living, demand,
to a to return hospital.
Job in
The people for whom
a city hor and she found it impos- sible to ignore their pleas for asalatunoc.
Her frontier "hospital" was a 14 by 20 ft. shack which also Mrs Jackson was still referred served us her bedroom, living to as "Dr Percy" by the Peaco
The advertisement called for well-qualified British took her mind off her ambition she had cared refused to forget doctors who were physically transport
strong and capable of taking charge of any type of emer- gency without hospital facilities. Another requtre-room and the neighbourhood River settlers and she has con- mont was good horseman- drug store. The living room also tinued to practise medicine, Sho
served as a kitchen and walting pow ship.
small but well room while the dispensary did equipped dispensary and This appealed to young Mary double service as the consulting sulting room in the basement of
of
a horse's back" on a marsh neELS"
She had also just
room.
hao
0
Don-
She vaccinated everyone
Ready To Make Perry, who suld she grew up on
her home, Colour TV Tubes Birmingham.
She soon found that her tid-MESSAGE FROM UPSTAIRS' gradumied from medical schooling ability was an asset. Sho and didn't want to settle down averaged more than 20 miles a Dr Jackson is also, modical Danvers, Masa. to a hospitni job right away. A manufacturing division
So from: Birmingham, Eng-day of horseback riding during health offler for the nearby Motia Colony at Paddle River. Columbia Broadcasting System Land, Mary Percy accepted the hot calls to patients. will be able to produce 10,000 job and was assigned to the She brought medical, service A zubies epidemic in 1982, and 1953 posed, a serious threat to district in to an area of 13,000, square miles the district and she played a 11-inch colour-television tubes Battle River Trairie monthly by late September June, 1929 for what WILS in- of sparsely populated bush, coun-- he moleary needs them, I was tended to be one year of adventry. She prescribed medicine, landing part in protecting the
ture. From the town of Peace performed; minor surgery
and area, lilver she travelled 100 miles up even pulled: teeth, and, extracted who came to her offov, Pre-the "Mighty Charles F. Stromeyer,
Prace" by burge corns. ulent of the CBS-Hytron ne
anci transferred to u covered
TWO. GRAND-CHILDEEN Thvision, wild his Arm has de-
wagon for the last 30 miles to her velopeak the Drst successful
EXONI.
Dy Mary Percy became Rues production technique for
found myself 100 miles
Jackson in 1931, and sho now from the nearest town and two has two grandchildren... large colour-TV leture tubes.
Huiles from the nearest house," husband, Frank Jackson, was a ment as a message, from up- "I look back on that advertigo- CBS-Hytron's development is she said recently.
black cumparable to a 21 h
There were no telephone or pioneer in the development of stairs," she said, and anyhow,
vich and the
Peace River farm it would have been pretty tough while picture tele and telegraph
Ho persuaded her to for a woman, doctor to go way heard of county. picture tubes
The river was our only source give up her job, and become far in a British, hospital, back in I vision
sembly-line reality instead of a
this those days. Civilised patlata of water. There were no bridges full-time housewife but
didn't think much of a woman pruduction Taboritury or pilot
over it and had to use a make- didn't last long, Stromeyer sold... shift
visit ferry to
patients After she married,, Dr Jack-doctor. But out here it domp't Dublin,-United | project,"
United Press.
ilving on the other side." son found her sexylem still in matter."--United Prem.
The' Cop' Who Cashes In
On Semi-religious 'Pops'
Irish policeman
―
―
Dublin.
composer, Dick Farrelly
and
ber is that a beadful Bigine Westmount, the guide telle is hopes to cash-in on the current semi-religious large-screen colour tele oude Just
nut
hused toy fedinite logist! Beers that a city bye-law
ut weight.
"Our madera
Leauty
រ
residents
50
ply fesional *
the boom on the Hit Parades.
to keep the lawns shorter these, he Bendemeer to tam the wa
tenda to une the man 1 inches
A of the want and the bus says, anil
the thigh, but the Body will be sent doen't have to worry too match and the bill will follow at the
if her hips Po attle to bend of the month.
since
giritle."
can always word
Actuntly,
there
no such
by-Law but an aidment to
As a result hin study of mother law says that malices
women's figura.
Sebrades his will be sent to residents require ng them to cut and trim untidy
ffarted making clothes tu
women Vent-size and smaller, lawn.
Several mujor Aring have joined in a sizing revolution in
1be
Wono
ilent
300 YEARS OLD Tourists are told that
t
213
Press.
Richer by over $30,000 thanks Meath
such Irish sugary ditties as "Innisfre", "There's only one Killarney" and "Cottage by the Lee," Furrelly 19 watching the America for u de- nail from
of his latest menstration disc "O, Pudre."
Now
Recently recorded iz York, this song he says, "is in the semi-religaus vein." And he hopes to make another $10,000 theoul of it, just as he
did with
Ford's film "The Quiet" Man,"
10
the women's clothing industry, Laurentian Mountains are older paisee. theme song of John he said. It started with special than the Himaligus, that Guy sizes for large woman and tall Street is named after Pierre Guy
The 30-year-old bachelor has girls. Then came odd sizes and the notary who signed the deeds half sizes, and now regular sizes
Eu Het scalet down from the short girl, the lust slave sale in Mon- no plures, despite his success as
treal in 1797; and that
a song-writer, elther The fashion
Jula Street are remains houses t Anherst
nurried or to abandon his 300
latter ulu. girl five feet, sevin
The
its a policeman,
He clocks is at 9 pan, in his Schrader and, but she years
considerent tubiful "fast"
(luckend job
Dublin Castle Amerlewn the
average
Inatonical azul The Bars cove
Precines,
Lila emplirs follows The average
points of interest Police the pattern of Venus, who sentral,
all valable serup atul pockels of Outremont the classic example of good
including
maju japer, and jos down his leas, proportion and grace
of paper is as the Carrying pieces
few
Notre attractions centuries
Danie "must" for him since the day be Westmount Look- thought up "Innisfree" on a bus Dut Here's some
more of the trip between his native courly
and little- diet of interesting known facts that tour passen- gers are fed along the route:
The island of Montreal is 37 les long and 10 miles
wicke:
Westmount, quito ago."Valledops at such
Ircas.
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BELOW ZERO
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and MUSEAT R. BROCCOLI
COMING TO
KING'S
PRINCESS
· EMPIRE
Wax Muscun
Church and
the Sun Life Assurance Company building has 16 acres of flour
the eruss space;
un Mount Royal 103 feet high and can be seen 16r 40 mucs when illuminated at rught; Brother Andre, the "muracle man of Montreal" was never ordained
priest and served 40 years as doorkeeper where the beautiful and majestic Oratory now stands. Untied Press
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Steno-Typists The Best Paid
SUFFER FROM
HAY FEVER?
Well Here's A Holiday Paradise
Edmonton, Alberta.
Most people look forward to summer as a time for fun, but for more than 100,000 Canadiana it's the time for sniffles, anecze and watery eyes.
OFLO you
Tokyo.
the if you're
of Ars
un- stenographer- expert
can And # typist can make about US$35 a fortunates, month in Tokyo today-it she haven from hay fever in Al-
type af
at 80 words per berta, according to the Canadian minute. A mechanical engineer Government Travel Bureau.
can
can get $42 a month.
in Tokyo
སྙམ
con-
The Bureau
recently เคย
scientific survey that
Help the following monthly wege safest scales. A typist with a "good American continent for people knowledge of English," $28; an allergie to ragweed, one of the ordinary tpist. $20; a hotel main offenders in the hay fever manager, $28. an accountant, menace. $42; a store clerk, $120 per day.
United Press.
advertisements ducted a Wanted
newspapers indicate indicates Alberta is one of the placca on the North
Kitchener, Ontario. Merchants here were happily
The Bureau says "practically all sections of Alberta are con- sidered safe for those sensitivo to ragweed popilens."
A pollen index of zero is given
spots
us
taking wooden nickels last for such vacation week. The 10,000 wooden coins Banff, Jasper, Lake Louise, and were made especially for Kit- Waterton Lakes National Park. choner's centenary at the sug-In contrast such eastern centres gestion of a coin collector and as Hamilton and Toronto have are being accepted дв legal pollen indices of 77 and 63.4 fender.- United Press.
respectively-United Press.
AVON'S.
delightful fragrances give summer charm.
wt "ns-
communications
weren't
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