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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY
THE CHINA `MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958
"MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
Laws Of Merrie Olde England
The Boy With The Pony-Tail
Hair...
London.
MOTHER let her five A year-old son's hair grow down to his shoulders and then tied it into I pony- 1ail
fastened with hair- Krips, a court was told last week.
Those By-Laws: They Aren't All Crazy..
By FENTON BRESLER
London.
'NUTS' IAN SAID, BUT
NONE BELIEVED HIM
London.
"NUTS," said 21⁄2-year-old lan Treadway when
THE picture of an exotic Indian mynah bird
singing "All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor" in at suburban garden in Esher-as was alleged in the Kingston by-law case is rather comic. But many themselves of England's 5,000-odd by-laws are rather ridiculous.
Ever, since an Act of Queen, place of public entertainments."
gave These are some of tho zaniest. Parliament Victoria's
Last year, 11,782 people were convicted of "breaches of local and other regulations." • One wonder what on earth they did.
(Loniton Express Service).
the
N.S.P.C.C. inspector Alon them the power in 1888 county borough councils Thncker said at Celesill, War-councils and
counity have wickshire, Juvenile euurt that throughout
their own lucal conditions at the boy's home been making were deplorable.
"I offere-1 to the boy's ham," he said, "but his mother would not let ne
laws.
These multitude
"by-inws" cover
il
of varied activitie but their main faction is mid
to be to prornute "the good rule
Later the Loy's hair was exit and government of the area and
4 children's home.
The boy appeared la Court with his fair hair cut short,
He and his 11-year-old sister were before the court as being neglected in a manner likely to cause suffering.
Their plea
Their mulber who
the prevention and soppression
of nuisances in it."
Often, they serve merely display the Ingenuity clerks
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of town whe evolve "offences" such as no sane man would have thought existed.
No kites
For example, In many burks
separated from her husband In England and Wales by-laws said: "It has been thrown at Folemnly forbid the bringing of me that I have tried to turn pigs into the grounds, washing boys into girls.
one's face in the amamentai
n home.
effect
the
17
the
removed to
The children told the court they wanted to go back to their molly.
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say
doctors tried to diagnose what was making him cough and giving him a high temperature.
took four doctors
hospitals
the trouble.
and two
Hugo The Flea (Best in Show)
Business
Is Healthy And Happy
London.
One of the doctors, in a talk with Inn's father, discovered five svesk to find
fan had swallowed samo nats that "went down the Wrong TUGO the performing floo Way" while ramping with bla11 -the "best hit in show
They treated him for brunchilly
and bronchial pneumonia.
They took three X-ray and
prescribed
different nino mediclats. They tried 幻
In- Intations and pepletliin jections, all without succeTA,
"Nuta," sala Ian, "It was nuta,” No one believed him. Bai nuts it proved to be.
father,
HUGO
Five fragments of peanuts went business" is healthy and down bla windpipe and biting fit, his owner assured lodged in his lungs.
television viawors. An operation WEB
and the nut fragmenta ploked out one by one. returned home Ian was
performed
and well-bal he low laste for unta-V.P.I.
were
sate his
ARSENIC EATERS WERE
VIGOROUS & BEAUTIFUL
Rome.
HERB mixtures and strange cure-alls have been popular in Italy for a couple of thousand years and are still going strong today.
The whole population
Comedian
Michael Bentina made this joyful statement after a week under a cloud following
complaints about angry
hia alleged cruelty to Hugo On R TV show.
It happened
on a Sunday, Sentine introduced his famous "Ben elreus" with Huge the star Turn. Everything was rehearsed to the last detall
TINY CANNON
Hugo was shot out of a tiny cannon-into a saucer of fiam- ing petrol. Cheers from the Live audienze.
But on the Tuesday, said pro- ducer Dick Lester, the trouble started, "I could hardly belløve it when we got the first COTIL- plaints Dear old ladies accused us of being enitous." "TERRIBLY CRUEL”
per-
It's not the first time Bentine his "It is not frue, 21 1 wanted lake, sorting rags on the lawITS,
were the more popular they become has been in trouble over whe the
Euruscans belleved In cheeses. Arsenle caters
fica circus. "I got fivo com- and in modern Italy. was to bring them up us child-"worrying waterfow!"
wine and honey for health and known to exist in Italy
1 in- ren.
Shortly after the last war the plaining letters when But I just desire a nice pond, erecting a tent, flying a hend of hair."
kite, wilfully" breaking china were probably the first to make Austria long before the Romans.
a Liver juice elixir. A large The habit may have been picked "Chinese Munhroom cure" was troduced the first flea orchestra back. TV a while spreading or sold Dr Jack Stuart
and “hanging,
fruft ard up by the Etruscans during their exceedingly popular. It was fol- to British for the variety of herbs,
mixture callod They said it was terribly cruel' in re-lowed by a Psychological
007 the deposing any unen
exotic plant essences existed two travel to Africa wher
a small boy, with har as long as ptirpose of blenching."
the mote, Isolated spots arsenic "Royal Jelly" made of boney to confine the flean in How are by-laws made? Have or three centuries before
and the Jelly which bees pains-box when they were noi girl's, had to be considered. He
caters still exist today. in start of the Christian era. bad
local inhabitants any
takingly manufactured for their forming" Benune said. recommended
anewer Concations brewed up were
of a
"But
viewers I can usAIZTO their concoction? The
queens and it was claimed to be children should be
The local authority prescribed for "curing" is: No.
at village in Styria Austria, was good as a face,croam as well as that Hugo (winner of a recent
In-
a stimulant and a prolonger of | Fleas Grand National) is recently reported undergoing. decides that it wishes to make and pains, broken bones,
state-controlled
healthy against life. CLING
Betvne and happy." new by-law-os with Slough creasing wisdom, longevity, pre- Council and their recent No-serving beauty, boniching bald-
arsenic eating. Both men and A recent cure-all is the root mid. ja nese and as protection against made dogs-without-leash-low-it
women who eat this powerful jel a mysterious plant called the Hugo incidentally, in zo small WRAS
Mud, the the plague.
clays and The care
of then formally drafted by
poison are supposed to become "Ginsong" which is a type of he can't be socm-UP.I. clerk's department and entmal fats, for alleviating pains extracdinarily beautiful.
Chinese Ivy made popular by the their grandsnother on condition town
Russians. It is supposed to help that the
received sent to the appropriate Ministry and good for making the hair mother
extended grow, also came out of ancient
pombat most ills and for confirmation.
Within munth of
the italy.
longevity. A couple of pounds The early Romana Minister's confirmation the new
used. an
of these emali roots which are by-low comes into effect, and "Argia Magnetica" or Magnetic
about the size of a finger tip, much an clay which the Etruscans prob-
cost as much as 20,000,000 lire any infringement by affence as a breach of an Act of ably brought out of India. 11
(HK $162,000)UPI. Parliament. But in the case of
was supposed to be good for maximum mast by-laws the
gastric ulcers if mixed with penelty is usually merely
chopped-up fingemails and Es ne
An interim orð.. putting them in
medical treatment.
Fish Pieces
Flowed Out
Of Bath-Tap
MR
Copotown.
D
Models
any
smeared over the hair.
"Cures" for baldness in Ihy were popular around the time of Julius Caesar, He apparently tried a number of mare-are re- against his medies
receding nairline and when they all failed he adopted the use of a lauret leaf crown to hide his bold pate.
BALDNESS
Seldom is a by-law challenged In the courts, though technically the judges can over-rule
to be by-laws they hold
or "repugnant TR D. Bright of Sea Point, "imreasonable"
turned on his bath to the general law."
Over the years local authorl- water and plecos of fish came ties became но by-law-happy drew up out of the tap. Soon the that the Government bath was filled with little "model" by-laws to serve ns a County The Surrey pattern.
In the frat century of the piecas of fish.
Council by-law that landed the
Christian Bro. the naturalist, to Indian mynah's owner in trouble Pliny the Elder, records that the try to find out how he could was a "model" one: "No person
favourite curca for baldness were get in
with the City shall keep within
quince extmet and wax cooked Council's Waterworks
or nutshell ashes Depart- building or premises any noisy
in red wine, mixed with olive oil and red ment, and had dimculty in con- aximal which shall be or cause vincing the policemen of his a serious nuisance to residents
wine. The juice of wild berries in the neighbourhood." lucerity,
also telephoned He then
and mixed with bear fat was Fair enough: a senalble the Waterworks Department
Beauty treatments are mund and an official came to his flat. necessary regulation. But there considered a favourite baid cure. and varied some of the date
He telephoned the police
touch
The official said he had been
20 years but bad never known
ony
house,
are still many by-lown extant
employed in the Department for especially those dating from the back to those used by the beauti- Arst flush of enthusiasm in the this to happen before. He put last two decades of the last cen-
not be bottia tury which could
described
some pieces of fish in a
and went outside and inspected the water main in the road.
The cause has Dot been
for
ful Elrascan women. Oil of roses, lemons and oranges 50
the hair and the face are also ancient beauty cures.
Probably one of the most
In Kidderminster, it is on offence to own a bath which
found, although it has been docs not have a watertight plug.drastic beauty concotlons of nil
tank on the roof of the fats by
In Ipewich the sturdy locals times was arsenic. It was calen
doses mixed in minute
suggested that we fia might are enjoined "not to incite any have been put in a spare water
animant to dight in any strect or
Procumably, 1 public place." you want to challenge a bull- dog you must do so in your own back-garden.
a cat. China Mall Special
not shake a doormal' on the
EGYPT GETS
Into
In Leamington Spa, you must ITS FIRST
CHOU EN-LAI
IT'LL BE A lawns outside the parish church.
In Frinton-on-Sea you must not "beat, shake or cleanse any
COLD, COLD drugged on the seashore,
WINTER
Seoul.
No sermons
Cairo. Efirst chout Eri-lai, his TIGYPT has just had hor
Full ROMOZ Chou En-Jal Mohamed Saloh Salom.
Farmer Molinmed Snich
El-Qamh, Salem of Minya
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In Cambridge no person chat, within 200 yards of any street, bathe in any stream without THEinmates of the nino wearing sultable drawers."
police stations in Secul
In Blackpool, on the world provincial town in the Nile facing the Delta, is such a great admirur This winter will be cold famous seafront
"Golden MiÏë" notorious
of the Chinese Cominuniat there is only one blankor for honey-tonk stalls and freak overy throa dotainces.
allown, no priest dare preach unleader that he has named his a Sunday for fear of infringing now-born ean after him.
Baby Cliou In the latest ad-
of
of
A dally newspaper bere, the by-law ngainst "bolding any
array Hankook ĺbo, reported that therellaious service or delivering dition to this country's nino nasions 120 unheated colle any sermon on any part of the of important namorakes. could
Egypt already has a Tilo and accommodate 1,100 parade." prisoners, but there were only London, too, lies come choica Nehru, second and third 370 binnkeln for them.
by-laws. No person shall blow triplets born to a worker Just Con- of affer the recent Brion! The
that paper. najd
the a whistle for the purpose blankets were mapplied five haliing a cab." "No person shell forence attended by Marshal years ago by the United Nations exhibit. any pearchlight en un toito, Premier Jawaharlal Nehru Ginmal Abdel Command KOMAN Civil be visible from any street. Toen President Assistance Command and were person shall, with Estens to cause Nanser. First of the triplets, *rather ribusly worn, subļannoyancă inconvenience, older pys thatter of hours, is too."-Cliina Mali Special. place any stink bomb in any named Nater-U.P.I.
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THE 'CURE-ALL'
Convenan
One Italian report of what occurred at the Styrlan village and women said that the men were vigorous, their eyes were clear and bright, their skin pale and smooth and that their teeth were beautiful and Ivory white. They also "maintained elim figures all their lives." But the potion retards longevity and a family or population dies
because of it,
out
f
Eviction Because Cat Dies
Bloemfontein.
Splinter Restores
Man's Sight After 25 Years
Haelsingbor TRISHERMAN Alfred I Svensson can thank alivor of wood for restoring of shli right after 25 yours Iblindnosa.
According A family here in South Africa
Most of the early herb mix-
to Stockholm tures and "cure-all" concotions
the 72-year-old in Italy rare harmful. Little is threatened with eviction be- newspapers
went to a doctor cause the cat which owned its Svensson known about the ingredients and
recently with ¤ splinter the early herbalista
in house has died. were
The cat landlord was one of bedded in his blind eye. The reality no less than witch doctors experimenting more often than three cats left the property in doctor removed the aliver not with their brews and oini-the will of Mrs W. L.Angole wood
A few days later the bandage ments to and out the result of several years ago. them for use in their mysterious The will provided that the was removed and Svensson practices. Gradusily monks and house be sold and part of the found that he could see again.
"It's His laconic comment: friars took over with tar safer profits turned over to the local
society for the Prevention, of wonderful; now I can workt and successful methods.
days."-- But it appears the more an-Cruelty to Animals on the death again as in the old
UPI clent and strange are such eures let the last cat--UPI
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