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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1955.
Interesting News
Of Stories From All Parts
The World
Women Need Training For Motherhood
Halifax, Nova Scotin. Good mothers don't just happen, according to Dr H. B. Atlee,
prominent
Halifax obstetrician and!
gynaecologist,
Dr Alle Nys women
the
to become good
training
mothers as Car loo
many
01 In
them "approach childbirth too haphazard a
fashion."
fIc advocates 21 Chorough anotherhood programzn sif
in the inésrporated muining educational system from coast count, in the same way that
RUG girls train 10 become
fashion secretaries, murs, designers, or for other jobs.
"Even today fear in a great factor in childbirth," says Dr "Older Women give Alice. young mothers-to-be an exag- of their ex- Kerated account periences,"
lle says society should make
100te unother 4 potential
of ense through the teaching pre-natal care and child care later on. Mothers also should pro- know how to create the per, happy atmosphere for the new baby in the house.
Dr Atlee suyu all this comes naturally to come girls but he was surprised at the number of
Women who embarked On motherhood without much idra of what was involved
According to Dr Atlee, this could be remedied by women banding together to press for the inclusion of motherhood claysto in school curricula... United Press,
Lady The
Pigcony Roca ---For~~Big-
From Ravenna: Wonderful From Peri: Stokes in Western Aus-
Why A Stradivarius
Different.
Clare Booth Luce
tralia.
The Mystery Of Johan-
From New York: No America's From Jo'burg; sufrain-travel-
Only Lady Am- bastador.
Explained.
WHY ARE THEY SO WONDERFULLY DIFFERENT?
SECRET of the STRADIVARIUS
Ravenna, Italy. The proprietor of a small tobacco shop in the nearby town of Cervia has just added a new chapter to the ondy ing romantic
of Stradivarius - story the greatest violin maker the world
ever has
1L
known. While cleaning out the attic!
hin of home which
for more family owned than two centuries, An- tonio Piriui, a Lobacco vendor, discovered a some- what battered violin ease.
A Dusty Violin
"F holes" of the instru ment, he saw the signa ture:
"Antonius Strai- Varius, Cremonensis, Faclebal
1716"
aunus
(Antonio Stradivari, Cre- nonese, made in the year 1710). Somewhat doubtful of the authenticity of the violin, Pirini took it to a violin in Ravenna who expert told him that the violin was "without the alight- est doubt" a Stradivarius. The violin is OX i reddish-
with orange colour
4 c darker Anger boarel It also samall dent on the right side of its body. The discovery of the priceless. instrument has started again
the 200-ye atorul Just
Stradivarius
Out of sheer curiosity he broke a small rusty lock
{ argument on the case and found a
what The dusty violin inside.
instruments instrument had no airing wonderfully different and
ser than all other violins. and the case contained no'
While
experts still say some bow. He placed it one)
the varnish is the key to the one side carelessly 212302
secret, others believe it is the continued cleaning out the
wood. The latter say that the Cremoun violin-maker usef autic.
wood from pine, sycamore and maple trees from the Alps
rouds There were no
In those
Later he examined the violin an, peering through the
Ambassador
Limelight
New York.
one
So you think America has only Ambassador, Mrs Clare Booth Luce in Italy?
1
Our artist's impression of the "Alard"
days and the logs were floated clown
the rivers from the Alps to Cremona. This school river of thought says the
**20k- waters elanged the cular disposition" of the wood and gave the
tonal superb qualities never dupileated since. They point
1810 out that the century violin maker Steiner failed to bulid exceptiona! violins in his home city, but in Cremona built excellent OBC3.
Without
has the longest diplomatic his- tory,
Sho is the only woman career diplonit ever to rise to The rank of anbassador.
A
easter
She almost shrugs CIT achievement. She 15 one of Lady the rare and fortunate
women who simply enjoyed the Rekl she chose so much that her ellimb to the Top was an incidental result, not i sual she struggled to reach to prove her merit.
So do muy other people . . . but there are two. State The other one, who is little known outside the Department in Washington, is Miss Frances Willis, Ambas sudor to Switzerland.
itud it Kentle Senat humour.
"Happy is the reign that has no history," she said.
"Do you mind that a lot of hair people have nevtr heard of you?" Miss Wills was asked the day after she arrived 152 New York to act as one of the advisers to the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly.
Mrs Willis smiled. She is Ja13, stum
with pressive blue eyes, slightly grey
WOTILITY
+x-
•SIDE GLANCES
Actually, of the Three American
who women
have served as ambassadors and the three who have been ministers to foreign countries, Miss Willis
By Galbraith
9-15
T.M. Rog U.S. PAL DIF
Capr. 1513 by NEA Berrics, Int.
"I never look at any other girl but Marge-you wouldn't either if you over tasted her mother's hamburger!"
"It sounds so simple it's hard to believe," Miss Willis sud. "Twenty-eight years ago I took the government extrane X- amination and passed it and went into foreiKN service for what I thought was a short time, I just foundi It too fas cinating to leave,"
"The lower levels were quite
"I
interesting enough to keep me
Miss Willis said. in it," never expected to be on am- bassador."
.
At dinner parties,she has solved the problem of a man Beated at the opposite end of the table from her, customary when couples entertain, by scat- ing the ranking weman guest opposite her.
"When dress up and put on for evening, a little make-up people who have seen me only in the office sometimes don't re- cognise me," Miss Willis sald "I can look quite severe behind
desk.
"But there is a lot in diploma- tle and consular work to keep "And she said. you human," then I have never lost my home She Was appointed Ai- roots. I still have clothes in bassador Lo Switzerland in the closet in our family home in
Redlands, Before that she was con- 1953. sul in Helsinki.
Press.
California."—United
After Napoleon built the famous Alpine roads, trees were no longer flanted down by river some of which had been exist diverted or ceased to
and, at the same time, the art of superlor violin making faded.
Stradivarius was about 18 when he began making stringed the under instruments coaching of his master Nicola Amati. Не wag Ull n student in 1060 when he
Inbelling
began
violins.
DW"
In 1684.he ranched out on his own and in 71 years of hard work he is believed to have turned
out about 1,000 instru- ments. He never got rich from them. He was accustomed to selling them for about The equivalent of 200 dollars.
Elman, Russian-born Mischn
violinist who became An American citizen in 1920, re- pucledly paid 1,300,000 French tranes for a 1717 Stradivarius in Paris.
1644 Stradivarius was born in
and died in 1737 at the age uf 93. Some of his most famous instry- ments still in existence are the "viotti", "Ernst" and "Alord" violins
Je uncl
"Piatti" violincello.
SEAT BELTS IN CARS NOW
Boston.
All new cars registered in Massachusetts heed seat belts and seat belt Bitings wonder a bill intro- duced" in the Slate House. The measure would re- quire
the seat belt at- tachments after January 1. 1057
The sponsors of the bill. Representatives Leo Sontair of Boston and Harold
Cankyan of Revere, said. “Ond life in overy 10 now lost in high- Way
accidents could be saved if seat belts were in common use."
Illinois has passed a law requiring seat belt attach- ments. Tho measure "be- comes effective next' July.
-United Press.
NOW PIGEONS RACE
FOR BIG
one
STAKES
Perth.
The owner of a pigeon watched one of his gale-buffeted birds coming home after a 260-mile race and summed up his affection for the birds with "pigeons have guts." That's
official of the reasons, hau
pigcon racing Contrary to the popular belief thousands of enthusiastic men events were Instituled. The pigeons don't return from long and women throughout the first known race was held in distance to their Jofis automa- world, And particularly in Belgium in 1812 over a distenlly they have to be trained Western Australia, tend, feed, tance of 100 milles.
starting from the time they are and rear
11 Then To U.S.A. race pigeons. The more
few weeks old. they know about the cherished
Young Birds are broken in birds the more they respect The sport Increased rapidly with short trips from their lofts in popularity in Europe end released and allowed to find Throughout this sprawling was taken to the United States their way back. They are kept state more than 2,000 members in the 70's of the last century. hungry beforehand and amply
From there it
all overfed upon return. of pigeon clubs race their birds every one quad, hall, rain of the world encouraged by the The distances from the lofts gradually increased until shine from June to October the fact that pigeon post was a are pigcon racing season.
necessary for military the birds are ready for racing They've been racing pigeons purposes and more than a help over 100 milies the novice events
for sharcbrokers in the days of the pigeons' racing ite in West Australia ainee 1853
before general use of the United Press. but the history of the homing telephone and radio. pigeon goes back thousands of
them.
near
Years. No one knows exactly Now when pigeon post is When the birds wero first almost
thing of the past,
Doggie
trained but Salomon's emis- pigeon facing us a big mo The Little D
Faries used them to
in
Countries In The Window
many messages, and they were used sport
resulle of "ho throughout the world. to carry the
Although Olympic
the 500-mile games each year to Motowna "and" villages of Concourse National hickin ancient Greece.
Belgium each year in the world And although the Chinese championship ovent, 'most
known to
used countries, have
Including Western them 2,000 years ago, it was Australia, have races offering -only comparatively recently big stakes.
were
JOHANNESBURG'S PENGUIN MYSTERY EXPLAINED
4
Johannesburg. How did a penguin, with
broken leg, travel all the way from the coast to Johannes- burg by train, without a ticket and - without
attendant በከ keeper?
2
Why did nobody notice him on the train? How did he board the train without being soon? penguin who cared for by tho Society for the Prevention
Cost Quite A Lot
Wellington,
One dog owner who has often heard the song, "How much is tint doggle in the window", now knows the answer.
The dog sighted another dog on the opposite side of a Nelson street, dashed scross, skidded on
of Crucity to Animals, but he "Porgy (the penguin) was in n keep him as a mascot for the the pavement, crashed through
died. And his voyage might have remained a mystery. But
a dinning-car stoward on the train read a report in' a newa- paper and went to see railway offeinis.
Ha told them that he had found the penguin' on the beach at Nihasal Bay. He: hlav
bad way when I founł hlm.
I realise he would die if
put him back in the sep. As he was friendly. I decided to doctor bim myself.
"I took him with me to the train and he was soon the favourite
of the saldon staff, who bought
fish with which to feed him ện the journey. We hoped to nurse hati buck 40 hoish and!
saloon,
On
wd
the plate-gines window rót a "Shortly after our arrival in drapery shop and landed in dis-
Johannesburg
missed play of tablecloths and lined. Porty. We searched every- The dog was cut on the body Where but could not find him, and legs by the broken gloss and Sunday morning I read in the window display was plenti- the Sunday Times that a fully spattered by
by blood. penguin had
mysteriously The dog had to be treated by appeared on a platform of the veterinary surgeon and the tarios Imediately I knew owner also felt in need of treat Unt it was Party China ment" whom he goed the co Mai Special!
New Wonder Material' Discovered
Adelaide.
Three Australians claim to have discovered a "won- der material" fibro glass Impregnated with polyester resin.
They claim to be able to make unsinkable boats which do not nced painting, shutter-proof radio circuits and glass walls for buildings.
The three men are Ron Mat- thewman, toolmaker; Len Par yon, land
agent and Graham McLean, instrument maker.
&
with
Their first experiment, an eight-foot dinghy weighing 120 120
yeasc) ibs resulted in moulded in one piece, leakproof, resistant to sea growth and which did not require painting the colour was impregnated in Abre.
the
The vessel did not warp.
Unsinkable
They followed this
thle
SUCCCS
with a 10-foot dinghy including system
A
*built-in
buoyancy
making it unsinkble.
The three say they have per- fected the technique of building the ten-footers and they will
bo
in now
manufactured quantity. One can be built in three days.
Two of their fibre sheets, if sandwiched with a rigid foom, make effective walls for
claimed. bulldings, the three China Mail Special.
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Would your watch have kept
time on the sea-bed?
WEARING ■ Rolux Oyster Perpetual, a professor of Milan University went for a swim oft Capri. But the strap-buckle was loose, and his watch brake from his wrist, and sank to the bottom. Without much hope, the professor asked some divers, working nearby, to keep an eye open for his watch. Surprisingly, seven days later, they actually found it, and it was still keeping perfect time.
It is not really so incredible. For this superb watch, completely protected from water and sand by the famous Oyster waterproof case, is automatically wound by the Perpetual "rotor" mechanism-- another Rolex intention."
It is in their ability to stay accurate under such incredible tests of endurance that Rolex watches prove their immunity from the more normal ills that beset an ordinary watch.
This Rolex Oyster Perpetual is similar to the one in the story. Permanently waterproof in its Oyster Case, it is given perfect accuracy by the Perpetual selfinding "rotor." The Rolex Red Seal identifie every Rolex chronometer.
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After uven days beneath the sea, a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, brought up by divers, was found to be still showing the right time? (The original letter of Professor Cutolo can be inspected at the Rolex offices, 18 rue du Marche,
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