CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1956.
LIFE BEGINS AT 100
By FRANK HILLINGDON MUCH has been written
about being "too old
at 40" and "how to
stave
off old age," but to many lusty centenarians life only begins at 100.
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From Castle Dale, Utah, came lively report recently of a
lady who dance seven polkas on her 100th birthday; and in Washington, on eager gentle. man obtained a job in chibe shop at the age of 102.
In Hamble, England, a
of
ladder
a ma-
firm
manufacturers engagod a travelling salesman A Londonor saw his Pred 104.
Brst cinema show at 100, und in Das Moden, lowa, a happy old
gentleman took out u
lo
get married at
113.
Students of longevity
Licence
who
maintain that one should "case up at 10" must have been a ilitle shattered by the activities
of Mr Henry McDermott, of Masterton, New Zealoud.
AL
Ho
The age of She tulit himself
coltage. four-roomed
somt to be sure of
11
wanted
comfort in my old age.** FATHER AT 106
MIB A. G. Kent, a sprightly old lady of Ashford, Keni, was a lover of classical music, and played the platio regularly at 101. Haj Haiden, of Mombasa, Kenya, had even more im~ presive claims to fame.
When
of
he died in 1033, at the age 126, he had been married four tunes and had 12 children. His last child was born when he was 106.
The Soviet
"I'm off duty in ten minutes when I shall show Davy Crockett here who's King of the Wild Frontier."
ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES
H
of Republic Abkhazi is renowned for ils
many centenarians. There were no fewer than 3,792 of them recorded at the 1036
110
Census.
The noted French scientist, Andre Laborde, who visited the area some time ago,
believed
were the
that the prime causes were water and air of the locality.
How does a pormulus
son live to be регкоп Enough
have
1007 been written
itten lo ll a newspaper. Some interesting light on the subject,
was shed by however,
conducted in Bulgaria The circumstances under which 168 contoraz kona readed their ages were studied.
census
ALL PEASANTS
It will be discouraging to city
from
WHO KILLED
THE
HE bare
that the
T
DUCHESS?
the
Dumas, facts are Alexandre
beautiful famous novelist, The Crown bat plump Duchess rested on the “aristocracy de Praslin wis of ownership," he wrote, and it would found dead in her bedroom because of that at the fashionable No. 55, fall. The aristocracy, he Rue Faubourg-St Homore at added, was "cach day sapper 5 am. on August 17, 1847. by internal dissensions." She had been brutally mur- (dered.
Dissensions like the Pras- lin affair, for instance. It dwellers to learn that the old The identity of her killer happened when the people were beginning to realise ones were all possants. Most of shocked the French ''aris- them dwelt in the mountainous
the re- Louis was building himself districts,
where life le barder tocracy—although has in the plains.
They had volutionaries rubbed their into an absolute ruler; when of rebellion a mutterings ali folled
Their lives,
hands gleefully; he was morning to evening,
wrestling friend of Louis Philippe, could be heard on the street canty food from the none too
and the people crown was corners fertile soil in an inhospitable whose shaky
given a nasty jolt by the were condemning the ex- climate.
cesses of the Court and the All the centenarians were a scandals that followed. little below medium size, but Louis Philippe had follow. extravagances of the aristo-
cracy,
seven.
Only
Their
of sturdy, Mont
them very
Aed Charles X to the throne, married between 20 and 25.
trad Charles had been a firm be- 103-year-old
woman Are Kimca married
lever in the divine right of not shared average number of children was kings, a belief
12 of the by his people, who forced
or him to abdicate.
Louis, when he took the crown, tried to be a liberal. But one man was not very hopeful of the result
Fortich
centenarians could read writo. About 15 perergl then were vegetarians, 80 per- cent liked to have a drop of alcohol now and then, and 00 percent never smoked
(COPYRIGHT
THE ACCENT IS ON THE AFRICAN
ness.
in
In her
London Express Service
By DUDLEY POPE
And
less, and there was no chance tried only by his perm, of another position since the that provided Louis Philippe hac been the target of the with a pretty problem. gossins for so many months.
Shỏ went to stay with friends. And the Duke visited her with the children. The last time was the middle of August, when the family returned from a visit to the country. Did the children ask the Duke to take them to sco their adored
luxurious
Ex-governess?
apartment,
Fanny, Duchess de Praslin, had
been
brutally stabbed.
wars
If he signed the winnt and the Duke was found guilty It would provide the revolution- aries with violent propagarada against the Court. Is he signed it and the Duke was found nựt guilty the revoltztionaries would the evidence had been faked.
Finally be signed the rant. At the same limo Mie Doluzy was taken to the Cọn ciergerio, on the Ile de Cille, questioned. The polios
and
motive for
could see in her 邮 murder; they also wanted to prove she was an accomplice.
At 230 am on this day un the murder the Duke Géczanet violently 11 aldared sevente pent for Dr Loria, the "vissiina' family doctor. He found the Duke in bed, with four pollon- men in thờ room. He reported. later:
"I noticed his condition, It was terrible. The Omptoms gave evidence of cholérá or poison. Peoplo decute the ot not having guld at only 'He poisoned That Would have-bb- trayed him and ruined imm. Poisoning is a tacit confession of guilt. terribly, but greatest fortitudio.
The Duke suffered exhibited the
ARSENIC?
gover- short while of driving in that 6 a.m. the ntoxt day thres 'pat tơ bôd. Four days later be
.... and . on Augurt do thuy of Petremos to ciast resolves of any blame attach-
Fanny
passionate Or did, the Duke take them as It was in this atmosphere woman with violent emotions an excizse för à visit?
in her love for ber Whatever the reason, they that the Duke and Duchess especially
husband. She was jealous of want to see Mile Deluxy in the de Praslin engaged A new Aust
everyone and everything about Rue de Harlat. The children. governess for their children, him jealous, comme pouple aid, brought her somo
presents--di Mile. Henrietta Deluzy. The of his affection for his own melon, a basket of fruit and a
had nine in bouquet of flowers. They talked, On Tueskiky, August 20, bo woman that arrived at the children (they
eleven
And the Duke they laughed, and they played was arrested and moved to the Поцве, 55, Вие ev years). Praslin
was tired of her,
Kames.
sald good-Tauxembourg Palace to be tried they Honore, Faubourg-St
She was especially Jealous of night to Mike D and went home, by the Court of Fears, He was March, 1841, had a strange Mic Deluzy who had, within n personality for, a
with people woke
a start. They Prislin household, managed to where the Duchessa maid, the get complete control
of the porter's wife and the Duke's children. In doing so she saw a valet. The noises that woke ing to the Duke's suicide and to lot of the Duke, who was very Ther
WETE AZTUTIS, Violent, hear the Duke do, Decana fond of them and spent a good agonising ewrams.
describe his last dreimalla intere A friend of Victor Hugo's deal of time in the nursery.
the Duchess's view with Prabin. It began at Ty ran to described her later as “one
Did they, over the years Mille apartment. This door was locket 10 Ark Deluxy spent at No. 55, Rue' and there me no noise boy. of those women who have Faubourg-St
"You are in great pain, my Honore, fall in They smashal their way in to more intelligence than feel love with each
other? That And
a fantastic and grucome our friend?" auired Decaze.
"Yo" ing. She is capable of will never be known for cer sight.
"It la your own fault Why By HENRY MALLORY
sumptuously did you polson yourself?" follies, not from passion but tam; but the Duchess-perhaps
unreasonably-suspected it, furnished: the furniture www.
The Duke der Prasin did not u! Lati American from egotism."
She had quarrel after quadelioate and beautiful, the hang reply. go rhythms, and calypso muLSİO Sho Was not beautiful; with her husband over the Ings, of silk and salin, were of
You bayo tokers
THE NOT-SO-LIGHT FANTASTIC
New York. love
TEMPESTUOUS
The room was
JAZZ vogies come and for (from Jansles) is well k
(from Jamales) is well known her attractiveness was in governess who was to leave her well-blended colours. It was a arenic?"
chal-
room. At for a duchess,
"yes"..
This is the Lind for the sake of your family, your manndry) - your childre to speak. You contend to having The Duchces herself was inken poison. It is not to be lying on the floor, she had boon buppooed that an innocent por brutally attacked with a dagger, non would deprivo his nino. She was doud, And all round children of their fathaste (virtiéns the TOCHT werd bloodstains and they are › already protkaner Letenk hundprints: die had apparently You are guilty, that?! rún from keli-pull to bell pull
har personality. Her mouth mark in history.
The trouble really starter four years now one of them
too big, when the Duke tools the child- Louis Armstrong, incidentally, was just a shade ita has resisted all
is due for another operation on her face was too square; but ren to the opera. Mile Delty KING SIGNED longers the mambo.
his already badly-scarred lips, at
clear went, too. Perhaps it was quite 28 sho WAS Mambo (which comes from which butt on almost every
perhaps innocent, and
Laber headed. Cuba), cha-cha-cha
visits to the theatre were hit (which number these days. It is forty- comes from Puerto Rico) and seven years since
The Praslin household wana as Innocent. "Satchmo"
The Duchess was merengue (which comes from arst blow his trumpet in publle stormy one. Sar Domingo) have gradually (he is fifty-five) and now three dark-eyed full-lipped
tempestuous Corsican, daughter INFATUATED? taken over the Broadway dance numbers a night is all his mouth halls In New York.
Thore, will stand,
He would like to concentrate solid" and has been on singing. But everywhere he for: 800
goes the "fans call for the showe. The trumpet and
Armstrong plays Palladium, by the way, is the with a deren handkerchists be most a la mode and the most aide Him, to wipe
away the Inferantional of New York night, blood after each
soprano "chorus,"
Roseland has three
nights a
week, and the p
is "mambo
60
haunts.
Only the huge up-lown dance
the Bavoy, which has FOOT NOTE: If you have givers
itsname to scores of sore feet through dancing and song but which is now destined the equivalent of seventy dollary
of a proud soldier, Morthal Sebastiant.
especially
trying to call help while her
Olmeta, in in the this out of up, stacker restlessly stabbed her GROWN LOST
withi
But tongues WIL As a young girl living on her
had viciousness again and father's estate at Corsica, Fanny Sebastiani
Lis three pervertis, everything-beauty, money and wilters make today's Hollywood
Tho Tuko, peripling social voralons look like pale doodles.
by their intelligence except
The Press started commenting tried
discovery #gony, did not reply alaxiing.
10 mais tip thale · mindia. So her shrewd father found on the Doke and Mild D. and what to do the Duke arrival "At least you regret you her an aristocrat, Charles Laurte commented, freely.
and asked what Driko clo Hugo Theobald,
Sebastiani Choiseul Prolin
to be demolished to make room to spend on shocking them, Frasin estates and
want.ex for a modern garden housing grey-haired ex-U.. Navy man tile was project, has resisted the trend has the answer. The Alan Mur- Sebastieni pride. and favourd "Rock 'n Roll, the roy "space ahoo is designed in was struck, and
of vulcanised latex rubber and its married. wartime's hot "Ilitor. relatively cool
all the bumps and contours of
In
therea mambo-style feet that aren't shaped like the FELL IN LOVE
couples dance apart unit insides of shop shoes daviso freely, The Carth Refused by the Navy in 1942
fir
+
the noise, evimno,” Dothan continuekt.
gealure of dospair: "if I de-
"Wall, then, I will go and Indom, hums par
To have sacked "Milo, D." was absout. When Kho tới bàn bị you to này 12 con deplon money was nooded for the would have been to admit quilt, Duchess's body he was reported (
the Prodin Was that why she stayed for to have sold "Poor woners,
Praslin lifted up his fande in for the another four year Or was it who fm, the monster who has A bargain with her? Angway, the stude
that the Duke was infatuated testeninated her?"
The police were called, and place t they were
tion preyed on the mind of the Allan, of be Secret Police, Then coniless. Do you whats Duchene and she was powerlose arrivect. The officers notlood to see the Chữancellor to do anything, som antil, the trail of blood which led to the autumn of 1847 1991; Op Duke's apartment. They décod Than the neovspapers sled him about deferentially nud
He was vague, sum wardly It was unfortunato for her a cómpaign, using thơ "Mila Da clently vague to prouae thele bean sudio
for fat foot, Murray, wis ro- more African than la, moet American Jazz, and classified six months later after that Fanny fell in love with her affair no a weapon with which suspicions, and Duke, or to delay, "No," he said, "I men too drums and other percussion wearing shoes he made himself, husband, a flaxen-haired, clean to belabour the Count and Louis Duke, Instruments Lake
precedence. After the war he decided to go shoves men of medium height Philippo At the same ting him aper, the melody. Thors in
As for the manufacture of the Opinions about him vary. To disminiledi sorvant who al Che none of the Romas
atmosphero shoes, which inca foam rub some people he was good been sackod want to one of
to newspapirs” naid tölt all, she wounder on his armati. And, thera 'deser of ballroom
He has two factories (dolny, ethem like Victor Hugo, he had know about thed Pisain houses were bloodtiin ons zome alone The last time I spoke to the bors and last for yo years looking and charming:
Could he principal mambo exponent on delverise; two months) and very gentle, but a very falso hold
Ho blom a villainous. What violent quarrols (bard then? Cuba-born To Puente, who customer at his two New Yotit • mannte. C malcom £100,000 a year with atores include Danny Kayo, mossi, and a horribly come at No. 55) Ruo Taubming will very VANS shows and records, he said he Boatrics Lallie Robert denied manner. He is a fair, El Honore we do not know, but been into would like to two tomarope. Cumming, baseball stare pailla man, washed out in an Mile Deluxy Was The Warttiininaux info Union and Kayak Arthur Englan. He always had the faving the s
they decided to sourch, wen
Tell him to borin
word, margfcher sich
moon he deck, Ho
6ls, girls number
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