* THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1959,
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
Firms Told: 'Give Women Jobs'
Employers Regard Them As
An Embarrassment
BRITAIN'S employers
London.
are taken to task
for their hostile attitude to women executives. A Government committee” finds they look on women who go after top jobs as "a potential em- barrassment and a poor return for investment.”
They justify this attitude, says the committee, by eaying that any personable and intelligent woman sultable for a responside
Job was likely to marry and take un family responsibilities which would kilerrupt, or even end, her career.
Vrging employers to "think again," the committee says:
It is little short of folly, when
the national resources of ability
are already taxed by the de-
have to contemplate in order to become 'accepted"."
The committee
says more by
feliities should be given
day-lime study employers for for women as well as for men.
The report says that Britain's i present system of commercial education was urgently needing to be overhauled.
THE COURSES
"More and mor countries
Big Brother
Over Her
HUSBAND
KILLS WIFE
OVER $5
Rome.
TNEMPLOYED Giuseppe
UN
Savino, 34, killed his wife of two months with 27 kitchen-knife stabs because who found ho had stolen 500 liro (HK$5) from her wallet.
Savino Jumped from a third
Now Whirly
Twirly Is Britain's New Craze
London.
FIRST it was the hula-
As
་་
hoop craze, Now Whirly Twirly the spinning of a plastic plate on a slender wooden stick -is starting to sweep Britain.
with Cap-
mands of science, Technology, are building up their industries storey window in an attempt to business, and the professions, for and offering for sale goods once escape police but he Injured Erms to regard the potential | considered typleally British.binself badly. He was contribution 10 be made by Many, of this country'e European tured and laken to hospital in women as something they can competitors have developed serious condition. afford to ignore."
elaborate systems of commercial education and are making in- Police said Saving and his 24-
1orts are tensive
10 strengthen year-old wite Enrica, married them
unly since January 11, had been al odds because Enrira thought he did not want to find a job.
The report says: "We aware that, apart from clerical and secretariat posts in which
Included Kong the very large numbers of women
con- few mittee's 30 recommendations are are employed... very have reached posts of respons- proposals for the introduction: bility in the professions asso- of advanced sandwich courses cinted with commerce The cummerclul subjects,
R way they have done, for example, la medicine, the Civil
Service and law.
This is on the lines of those already established in the field of technology, and the creation of u new national award for "It appears that women have students in colleges and depart refrained from entering the outs of commerce who have
gher ranges of commerce... successfully laken not because they feel in any shwich COURSES 10 degree Way heopable of securing thej kvel.
qualifications or conducting
the Duelaces nu t man does,
advanced
27 TIMES
He mn!
When Savino came home one diny last week, bis wife hurled the wedding ring in his face and charged that he had taken 300 lire from her wallet. Into the kitchen, grabbed nj Knife with which she had been peeling potatoes and stabbed fier 27 times.
When police, alerted by neigh- bears, knocked at the door, Report of the Advisory, Savino jumped from a window,
but because they are not wel- Committee on Further Educe come to employers and because on for Commerce. H.M.5,0., of the strai and effort they ❘ 270.
breaking on arm and a leg. He was captured by a policeman ou
luty.-U.P.I.
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the hoop, the idea comes from Amerien, where there are already millions of Toy traders have no doubt that
plate-spinning youngsters,
the same thing will be hap- Whirly Twirly was launched at
perring in Britain soon.
Fair ht
the British Toy Brighton recently. All you need is a light, plastic plate with a slight dent on the underside, and a wooden
signed to fit into stick with a plastic lip de- the plate's
dent.
How it's done in the teeth
The idea is to spin the plate at the end of the stick, either simply or with variations, and it is the odd things you can
do that make it fascinating.
One player can toss the plate to another, who will catch it on
his stick and keep it spinning. More than 2,000,000 bula-boop:
were sold in Britain within just over two months of the
craze catching on And toy dealers aro getting
ready to meet a similar do mand for the spinning plates in the next few weeks, The Whirly Twirly outût is priced at 3rylld. In the shops," but it already has rivals.
There
Watches
Little Ginger has no need to worry if any nasty old dogs chase her. All she has to do is scamper to the .protective arms of her “big brother,” Peppy,
the monkey.
A RING THAT FITS FOREVER BRITON INVENTS DEVICE
London.
THOUSANDS of gold bands, plain and fancy,
will be slipped on slim fingers during the wedding season this Spring-but in five years many of the ringa will be irremovable. It is just one of the sad, hard facts of married life that housework tends to make for farger finger joints.
But Mr Jacob Newman, araan who first gave Mr Newman Hatton Garden Jeweller, has a the idea for his invention, #T solution. He is now patenting was fitting a friend with a ring simple device designed to and found he had to laku such, "make all types of rings fit bet- idrge size to
over his
ter, as well as being much caster knuckle that it looked terrible.""
is Whirl-a-Whizz al to remove even if the finger size | sald Mr Newman, “I started to Teams pldētie plate faltera with the Year rack mity brains for a solution, with a 24m, stick,
And there la the Whirling Whirler at 3s. 6d. "We have made preparations to market 500,000 ya one manufac burer,
Hot Number
THE PRICE
Mr Newman's ventlon takes the form of a tiny spring which expands the ring by some five The fitment will also be useful to eight sizes-enabling it to be for heavy dress rings which are slipped over the jolt quite often set with large stones-a caally. The spring ntment Continental fashion which is ensures that the ring fits mugly | rapidly becoming more popular at the base of, the finger how-In this country. Unless a ring of ever large the joint.
this type fits very snugly, the stone lends to make it lumn on the finger.
LITTLE SPRING
Los Angeles, NNOUNCER Larry Callerton A interrupted his broadcält of nowa of a nearby bush fire 10 announce the station (KJH) would have to go off the air for invention a mimito because a Ore had broken out in the control room. -U.P.I.
| Labologists
A last word from the inventor A number of leading London himself "My device is simplo Jewellers are interested in the
and very important-inexpen- and his first com- sive to practice. can adapt masions have been to adapt existing cloga or incorporate the
ringa for Salting
their Atment during manufacture. In customers. "One lady had bad the last case, it should mak
very le difference to lu great deal of trouble with a
diamond ring," he said, The ultimate price of the ring to the
customer,
the
retailer told me that there was nothing more he could do to
"And when I think of the very make the ring a better fit. Then many rings I have, cut off for I put in one of these temy customers over the yeare springs--and now he has a well It should save a great deal of satisfied customer."
inconvenience · for men and wonten who wear rings, as well as being a great help in on emergency--such as a bee or weep sting on the rhg ünger."
London. THE "Labologiels Society
alated in an advertisement in the Times that it would send
The : particulars of the Society to all
new, dovice will be "Label
collectors" who ask equally useful for men who U.P.I.
wear rings. In fact, it was a
'Painted Lady' Became The Tart
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