THE
HONGKONG, ^^ TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1988,
'DO'S' & 'DON'TS' FOR MARRIED LIFE
RESCUE OF MAROONED ICE SCIENTISTS
These Are the
It's
Easter
Time
WORLD OWES GREAT DEBT
INVENTOR DIES IN LONDON MAN to whom the world owes
a great
debt died recently at the age of 96. His name is Ed- ward Hodson Bayley,
England in particuir should thank him for inventing the modern fire escape and the world in general should be grateful to him as one of the first sponsors of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Walking down Regent Street one Jay Mr. Bayley met D'Oyly Carte, then running an obscure music shop, who took him to meet a couple of obscure young young and equally men called Gilbert and Sullivan, who
with had just collaborated operetta Trial by Jury."
an
HE PUT UP £1,000 Mr. Buyley istened to the tunes and went home humming. them- unable to get them out of his head. So impressed was he that he put up £1,000 for the production of "The Chappell and Metzler
whats another £1,000 each, and
wor heard Gilbert oud Sullivan for the first time.
As her
head of Bayleys. Ltd., waggon buliders, of Newington Causeway, Mr. Bayley designed the first It wound up
Sen fire escape.
mode and down and there was a wire chute in place of the canvas variety which was always catching on fire.
Still with the idea saving
he
of
member for East Camberwell in Gladstone's last Government,
entered Parliament o i
His
plan was to promote a national life! boat service, but although he got
failed.
He founded
he
THE FIRST PICTURES of the rescue of the Soviet scientists after they had drifted for nine months on an Arctic Ice-floe, are re- produced on this page. Above: Men from one of the relief ships, Taimyr, digging a lent free of the snow in which it was almost buried.
THE FOUR SCIENTISTS who formed the expedition seen just before they left the tee-nor. M. Papanin, the leader, Is fondling the dogs which accompanied them from the start.
Wife of Victim of "Cat" Asks
For London Divorce His Wife Was
CLAUSE DEPRAVITY CLAUSE TO BE INVOKED
Robert Harley, sentenced to seven years' penal servi- the support of over 100 M.P.s tude and 20 strokes of the "cat" for his part in the Mayfair
FOUNDED ORPHANAGE
the New Church jewel robbery, is to figure in the courts again shortly in a
walen Lives case-the first of its kind in British legal history. Orphanage Society
His young wife, a Bexhill woman, is taking proceedings for widows a weekly allowance to keep their homes going. When he was divorce against him. They were married in March 1936. over 80 he sul went swimming be- The case is unique because it is the first application, under fore breakfast, and until quite re-the Matrimoniul Causes Act, 1987, for leave to petition for divorce, cently was at his office every day.
He was the oldest living Livery-though the marriage has not been in existence three years. man in the City of London, having It will be the first time the legal machinery provided under held that position for 70 years. He the Act has been put into operation to deal with this type of formed E Liberal Association
Conservative application,
Southwarit, then D
nt
stronghold. Within a year he had AFFIDAVIT SERVED
secured a membership
thousands.
of several
The two. Conservative The procedure is for the petitioner's solicitors to issue an M.P.s for the constituency
were originating summons applying for leave to petition for divorce.
displaced by Radicals.
Living Cost up
In Singapore
The cost of living in Singapore last year was higher for all com- munities, the percentage increase compared with 1936 being:
Asiatics
Eurasian
European
8.1 per cent.
4.3 per cent.
2.5 per cont.
In 1938 the official cost of living fell
Not Pleased
Benton, Ill., Mar. 10. Police officer Virgil Rogers tried out his new handcuffs on his wife.
Then they took a walk to the locksmith's to have the handcuffs removed.
Rogers had lost the key,
Girl Attacked
In Bath
18 Strokes Of The "Cat"
For Ex-Boxer Eighteen strokes of the "cat" and 18 months' hard labour was the sentence passed at Glamor
This has already been done by the wife's solicitors, of Longan Assizes on a 25-year-old don's Inn, who have served an affidavit on Messrs. Emmanuel steel worker. Garber and Co., of High Holborn, Harley's solicitors.
A copy of the petition has been filed at the Registry and Messrs. Garber have 14 days to enter their answer.
An application for divorce in the case of a marriage of less than three years' duration may be brought, the Act states, if the case is one of "exceptional hardship suffered by the petitioner or one of exceptional depravity on the part of the respondent."
The case is to be defended.
slightly compared with 1935, but the BOTH ANSWERED] £1,600 For Girl
cost of living last year was higher than in 1035.
FOOD IS DEARER
The detalled analysis of the figures shows that last year the food bill for the average European and Eurasian was 6.8 per cent. lilgher than that for the previous year.
NAME IN COURT
New York, Mar. 10.
Two men stepped forward in Jefferson Market Court, when the name of James Pappas was called on a charge of Illegal peddling. cosia - for
The Increase in food Aslaties was even higher-11.5 per vent.
Dearer Items In the menu of Euro- peans, and Eurasions were beef, mut-| ton, fowls, fish and vegetables, while Asiatics hind to pay more for beef, Ash, lard, vegetables, mutton. dhali.
EVATION, RENT HIGHER
and
bed to pay 3.4 per cent. more for servants, 17 percent morel
Both man insisted they had. been arrested and both elaimed the same namo.
One Pappas was peddling pretzels, the other apples.
Two dollars apleoo.
police
In Newcastle
He was Emlyn Lloyd, a former
boxer, who broke into the house of Mrs. Violet Carpenter, at Port Talbot, and improperly assaulted her in her bath.
He also stole her handbag contain- ng £11.
Lloyd pleaded guilty to three other burglaries for which he was sentenced to 15 and 12 months' hard labour, the sentences to run concurrently.
sentence, Mr. Justice
Gord said: "You' were not!
Secrets, Says A Doctor
"DONT'S" for women
who want to make a success of marriage were enumerated by Dr. Ethel Dukes, co-director of the Institute of Child Psycho- logy, Warwick-avenue, W., when she spoke on "The Successful Wife," at Friends' House, Euston- road.
The wife who wishes to Buc- ceed, she said, will not: Domineer over her husband: Criticise him in the presence of
others:
Inalat on changing him;
Refuse to be friends with his friends;; Try to show him off;
Make him into a cushion carrier or
additional servant;
Insist on constant entertaining in the house and out of it when he is tired and wants a smoke and his |
slippers;
Despise his homespun qualities when she has had time to improve her cultural and social qualities while he has been hard at work: tun down ht smother or other rola-
tives;
Get into debt;
Refuse to have children if he wants them and there is 110 medical reason why she should not; Use any feminine wiles or neurolte
illnesses to make him subservient · to her.'
a
Dr. Dukes, who is herself wife and mother, said that it was better not to marry than to enter it asking "What can I get out of marriage."
ALLOWANCES FOR WIVES
Another important point, she con- tinued, was: that an arrangement should be made at the start, about money. Every wife should have a that she could personal allowance spend as she liked.
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Other qualities essential to the successful wife were common sense, a sense of proportion and a sense of humour. Without these she would be ICHIMLEN Inclined to make mountains out of mole-hishness, tactfulness, adapt- ability, absolute fidelity and loyalty to her husband were equally requisite. "I am all in favour of early mar- ringes," Dr. Dulces sald,
Other points in her address were: 5 necessary for the wife, particularly in the carly days of marriage,
"It is most important that girls should be trained to be good wives! not only in matters of housekeeping but in other ways. In oarlier genera- tions girls married knowing nothing of sex matters. Their mothers, al- though they had had many children, often told them nothing."
"MARRY ONLY FOR LOVE" Homes where men had married a domestic servant had a much higher standard.
"Martlage should
be undertaken for no reason but love."
"Marriage should be undertaken for no reason but love,"
Her Anal advice was that the successful wife needed the quality of forgiveness. In marriage men were very often for more forgiving than
women.
Dr. Dukes, whose husband is Dr. C. E. Dukes, the bacteriological expert, lives in Queen Anne-street, W. was married in 1015 and has one son.
MAN BEHIND FRANCO
She
An amazing story of a secret mili¬ merely content burglariously to enter tary genius responsible for planning the house and steal but you also com-Franco's victorious drive was told me mitted a terrible assault and used recently by a Nationalist volunteer
-Sketch reporter, violence on a defenceless women Jeft just back in London from the front, In the house by her husband who was santo is only a gure-head," he
"Franco working at night,
"Three months ago, a young mili-
"You caused her terrible pain and Bald to me. must have affected her in a way only
was lent to Franco to a terrorism of this kind could affect any genius of the German General
Newcastle on Tyne. An 18-years-old Newcastle manner quin who went home every night after work and cried because of the mid- disfigurement she suffered in night motoring accident last July is: to accept the advice of Mr. Justice said: "Thank you, sir. Wrotfesley and place herself in the hands of a plastic surgeon.
On hearing his punishment, Lloyd new plan.
Lloyd had made a plea for lentenoy. "IL is not for myself, but for the girl I am courting. She is prepared to stand by me," he said.
"He is living in the strictest seclusion at Franco's head- quarters in a small white house guarded day and night by a double sentry.
"In the few official papers in which he is mentioned, he is called Capitano Hoffmann.
When Miss Joyce Pearl, of Rose
Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord: You worth-nvenue, Gosforth, was awarded £508 damages of Thurham Assizes don't seem to have gone the right way
Mr. Justice Wrottesley when you were courting her. HERE'S PARKING CONFUSION
that she was "still" a very Bydney.
the
"When, three months ago,, he girl" the girl was one of CO-EDS VOTE DOWN MUSTACHES
arrived at Franço's headquarters he The
department's new
Kent, O. asked to be given alx weeks to for transport, 1.7 per cent, more for alternate day parking system al- plaintifre in a joint action which also their children's education, 2 per cent, most requires auto
drivers to be resulted in another Newcastle girl,
Miss Nancy Watson, a 23-year-old Men at Kent State University can study the position. He travelled all for clubs and 2.2 per cent, more mathematicians to know where shop assistant, accepting a settlement quit counting those hairs on their over Franco Spain and visited all the
upper llp. Most of the Kent co-eds fronts, rent
when to park. The system provides
down and i in: alx "Then he sat do Incronies other than those for food 20 minutes, parkdas periods on the of £1,800 damages, in the Ablaile family budget, com odd-numbers side of the street on the last Peart told me that she re- don't like mustaches, anyway. A prised 25 per cent for education odd days of the month ad on the signed from the tennis club because poll by the campus humour magazine weeks worked out, the plans which Cooley 37 per certes for Slothing and even-numbers dde on the rven days of the embarrassment the disigure disclosed that 82 per cents of the have brought now an overhelming
ment caused haramu
women studenti disilko müstecher victory to Franco... 12 per call for rent/AENA of the month.
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