THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY,
OCTOBER
24, 1938.
DRINK
THE TWINS WHO HAVE
'FORMED FOUR'
Even Husbands Didn't Part Them
They've said for years that one man and his wife under one roof may equal bliss, but that just one more woman in the "well, you same house may mean.
know what women are”!
Now two 24-years-old London girls-they are twins -have knocked this theory endways by living the "per- fect married life" together in the same house with their respective husbands.
They are Annie and Eileen O'Brien, inseparable twins, now Mrs. Will Johnson and Mrs. Ronald Clarke, of Nightingale-lane, Bromley,
"You're crazy-Annie and Eileen got the same answer when frienda were told of their dual honeymoon plans. "Crackers," said the friends of the two prooms.
So you can tell what friends sald
when they enimaly
they proposed to house.
announced that
share the name
SAME HOUSE, SAME TEAPOT
Ellect and Annie grooms just smiled and
thair way. They honeymoon car.
and the two went on
hired the same
"But just wait till you get back to the cynical critics said. normal. Two newly word women-and sisters of that--in the same house? No, it will not work."
and the two Elleen and Annie
They divided grooms still smiled. the house into two, Elleen had the front. Annle had the back.
the
They preferred it that way. Eileen liked the light; Annie liked quiet.
"But what of the kitchen?
Ha!" cried the comics.
He
Alligator In Search
Of A Diet
Archie, the alligator, 10-years- old, 6ft. long, and ugly, escaped from his tank in Brighton Aquarium. In search of a change ofdlet, he wandered nearly 100 yards through winding passages to the staff mess-room.
Even 80-year-old Frederick Brown, who has been at the Aquarium for over 60 years, was mildly surprised when he arrived there.
There was Archie, banging his tail "It's coay," said Elleen and Annie. Both have their own sets of croc-in rage on the stone floor and mak-
wrath. a frustrated alligator's They share the same teapoling the hissing sound which indicates Mr. Brown quietly closed the door
Nature
In the Raw
A "nature in the raw" draina in the North Sea. which war watched by the crew of the Grimsby (rawler Ravena, wan described by them reccnity on their return to part.
Tunny fish were the intera: Herring the hunted.
Skipper George Smith said: "A shoal of herring suddenly rozg to the surface, harried by She tunny. The herring came close to the ship for sheller, but when we hauled our nets the shoal moved away and F terrible slaughter began.
Nearly 100 funny. flashed among them. Herring that were flicked into the air by the lails of the tunny wero snapped up by rulls. The funny and the gulls between them musi have consumed thousands of fish."
3
Do You Think She
Is Pretty?
This is Miss Vera Haal, and, Americans think she is the most beautiful girl In the United States. She has won many beauty con- tests. She was. clected" Mist Vonus in 1937, since than she has baen " Kites New York" and now - she "M America." She started her career
aj model, now she is the leader of a team of eight glamour girls which appearing in London.
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BROKEN RULE CAUSED
TRAIN CRASH
"PEP DRUG
**
Report Says Traffic ON POISON
Staff Failed
Immediate compliance with a rule of the London Passenger Transport Board would have prevented the Charing Cross Underground railway smash on May 17, when six people were killed and 45 injured.
This is stated in the official report, issued recently, of Lieut.- Col. E. Woodhouse, the Ministry of Transport Inspector who con- The rule quoted in the report says that when a signal fails Meanwhile, of the staff. They shop together. If one feels and awaited the arrival of other ducted an inquiry into the cause of the accident.
members Archie's temper deteriorated. There the signalman or atationmaster at the station in the rear must was an hour's battle before he was be informed and must stop all trains proceeding towards the persuaded (which la scarcely the proper word) into a box and enrried signal, and advise drivers accordingly. protesting back to his tank.
kery
at breakfast-but when it comes to cooking they go their own ways
tired the other takes the list. SHARE RENT-AND RADIO
"We go each morning to market to get the day's supplies," they told me. "A large cabbage does for the four of us, but the nives go into different pots."
Annie's husband comes home al midday for a meal; Elleen's In the evening. To oblige, one of- ien cooks for the other,
Each couple pays half the rent. They share the house but the gar- den is the common meeting-ground. They don't divide that.
"So far, so good," say the cuntes, "bat what of the radio? That can start trouble"
There is one set between the four. Elleen hus it in her downstairs room, but there's a loud-speaker connec- tion to Will and Annie's room. "We have the same tastes,
Working
ing out well, they said. "There is no question of it getting
it's
on our nerves"
and
Annie has a guest just now-an uncle from Co. Cork. She puts him up in her spare room, but next time
it will be Elleen's turn.
---AND DRESS ALIKE
What else to silence the cynica? Well, they go to dances together, and to football matches and the ple- And Eileen and Angle fove turcs. to look alike in the same dress.
NO OBJECTIONS
Mr. Brown held out a broken
broom.
"He broke two of them, snapping the handles clean through before we could box lln," he said.
I don't really object to this sort of thing, but I am perhaps getting a little old for alligator hunis, Years ago I entered a tank here and, armed only with an iron bar, separated two fighting alligators."
Anti-alligator defences Aquarium are to be strengthened,
at
Did You Know?
the
The primary cause of the ac- cident was a "false-clear" signal indication being given, due to a wrong connection made during the previous night.
after Shortly
leaving Charing Cross, an east-bound Circle train collided with the back of an Ealing- Barking train which was standing at signal in the tunnel midway be- tween Charing Cross and Temple
stations. INSPECTOR BLAMED
at
LISTS
London.
The Home Office has placed on the polson list "pep drug" benzedrine, which has been used by some undergraduates before their examinations effective results.
with very
Benzedrine, which WnE re- cently discovered, speeds up the brain and gives confidence but is harmful if taken Indiscriminate-
ly.
HALF BRITAIN EATS WRONG FOOD
With nearly £1,805,000-one-third the national income spent in Great Britain on food, nearly half the population fail below the British Medical Association standards of adequate nutrition in some respect or other.
Station Inspector Barnes was
This startling conclusion comes not from the rash reasoning Charing Cross and Col. Woodhouse contenus that after being warned of of an extremist politician or an economist ventilating his special
situs dangerous possibilities ol
clate
the
the
not
That Judge'n
A
Wi Intended us an aid to dignity, but to assist dandies to catch their lovers' eyes?
That
hellove that, Bome nurses
the father when a baby is born, sort of often suffers exactly the same dis-
comfort as the wife?
That tea made from dried It's been going on for two months
used to now. It started as an experiment, raspberry leaves is widely but they don't went to change. cure ills in the Eastern Counties "Couldn't be happier," they both and even in North East London?
that That people s believe told a reporter recently. "Young!
themselves оп wives often feel lonely. We are never midwives transport lonely,
So what, you cynics? "You must be heavenly twins," they say.
Pilot Exonerated Returning a verdict of Accidental Death, the jury at a Gosport inquest recently exonerated the pilot of an RA.F. seaplane which collided with a bbat al Lec-on-Solent on Thursday, and fatally injured two fishermen,
broomsticks?
the
tion as to what are the best ways to expend the food budget is deficient.
The result of the aurvey suggests that between 12,000,000 and 22,000,- 000 people have the means to secure better health, but lack the know- Jedge,
the signal defect he "did not appre fad, but from a survey made on the income is adequate, but educa. a hitherto unknown scale of the "I have come to the conclusion dietetic habits of all classes of that Station Inspector F. H. Barnes our population by a husiness had an opportunity of preventing man in touch with every section
ace'dent, but that when con- of our national life. fronted tion he did not rise to the occasion In the manner to be expected at whose a man in his position," states Col. Woodhouse. "For consider that he must bear some share of the responsibility for the accident." accide
nted with an unexpected situa- Sir Wiliam Crawford, K.B.E.,
this
reason 1
Inspector Barnes, the report adds, is 45 and has 28 years' service, dur- ing the past 11 of which he has been a station inspector; he has an ex- cellent record MOTORMAN CLEARED
Whatever the true explanation for That boys under 14 are bored by the mistake in wiring the signal, borne by "base" Alms; but that girls of 12 or "responsibility must be
Signal Installer E. Ecles," 13 might be seriously affected?
But, it added, inasmuch as Eelca That an ape'a akull has been found n South Africa "comblaing was not competent to lent the signal characteristics of the apn with human controls after he had finished his milk teeth." but is missing link? ⠀⠀
the
not
These remarkable facts were told to the British Association,
remained
stationary everything would have been all right.
The South Hampshire deputy cor- The victims were Thomas Bannis-
Adelaide-grove, oner, Mr. Gerald Warner, said: "I ter, uged 75, of East Cowes, and his stepson, Thomas think it would have been wiser to a spot for landing crusiderably select Henry Kemp, aged 45.
Pilot Sergeant Cliford Bond sald farther away. Then, if anything he saw the boat and decided to land goes wrong, you have a much better
If the boat had chance to alter your direction."
to one sido'' of It.
BABY'S
GAS PAINS
Colic and many other children's all-- ments are frequently a case of too much weld in the stomach. Rellers the pain, neutralize the acids, restore normal health by giving them
PHILLIPS
KAMEROR MAGNESIA MILKBO
book The People's Food (Heinemann 125. ed.) was published recently, cet afoot in the winter months of 1936-37 a survey of 5,000 horues.
It covered homes where the income ranged from over £1,000 a year to £2 a week or less, and ranged from London to Glasgow, and Newcastle to Cardiff.
WHAT DID YOU SPENDI
His investigators made door to door calls and got the housewives' anawers to such questions as
What time did you have break- fast yesterday?
What did your family' drink for breakfast?
How much did you spend last week on milk, bread, sardines, bacon, meat, frail, fishy
meal
Does your husband have hla in a at hozne, midday restaurant, or take it with him! packed?
5.r William Crawford points out that educational campaigns spon- sored by the producers of valuable Q beneficial effect not only on the producing in- foodstuffs could have dustries but on the national health, and that the pivot on which physleni Atnces depends is nearer the home kitchen than anything else.
HOME COOKING
In the revival of home cooking, he stes one of the greatest defences of democracy and a barrier against the increasing regumentation of the in- dividual.
|
Interesting points from the survey are that
Peak hour for breakfast is 8 and the amount of bacon consumed at it is a direct measure of social standing.
"Elevenses" are increasing ko popularity.
At least 50 per cent, of husbands take their
midday meal at home. Coffre still logs behind tea as the national beverage; and
Beer drinking in the home ap
night's work this should undoubtedly have been done by Chief Linesman A. G. Beer, who must "consequently of the respon- bear a large share sibility."
The failure of Motorman McLean, driver of the second train, to apply The motive for this arduous re- the brake, was due to a momentary search was that although from Board confusion of the tail light of the of Trade figures the total quantiles train in front of him with a signal of foodstuffs consumed are easily dis- view of the sameness of the covered and United experiments on and, In
a moment's hesitation was unimals and two lights, a
those groundsļ humans have pled groups
exactly what unnatural. On
The British public, though de- McLean is relieved from any respon- diets yield the best health results, initely carnivorous, is shown by the sibility for the accident.
there is no way of finding exactly survey to rank fourth only among "Perhaps the most regrettable what classes of the population are the world's meat eaters, and sixth feature of the accident," says Col. securing such diets.
among milk consumers. Woodhouse, was the failure on
not
of
the part of the trame staff to take KNOWLEDGE LACKING. preventive action, for which there It has long bech known that was ample opportunity. "Responsibility
though some 8,000,000 of the popu-
to have pears to been curtailed by the roved facilities offered in
Improved clubs and public-houses.
for the accident lation are inadequately nourished G. B.S. On
must be shared with Chief Linesman from lack of means to bity proper Deer by Station Foreman Foskew. food, there are ollier strata in which
"I am of opinion that negligence
the latter was guilty is
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of
which the
ALSO IN
TABLET 1062.
more serious than that displayed by urges a method of marking the back! Beer, for on none of three occasions of a train which is suficiently dis- on which a dangerous fallure was tinctive to be immediately recognis reported to him did he take the able as such. The board should be trouble to follow up the matter per- requested to report their final pro-
that posals without undue delay. and asstice himself
measures word being
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HOLLYWOOD
"TRASH”
When I began work in the theatre, It was desirable that all trans the old provincial stock companies Verse Kiss should be of the safety supporting strolling stars had perish- Hopkins, who was told by variety, and he was sind to reported and were replaced by louring companies from London, which be that the board had decided to sub- Foskew to telephone Charing Cross and who subalituted the meaningsca siliste safety glam by degrees for camo staler and staler und cheaper and cheaper, until the cinema, with the plate-gium now used.
its magnificently costly productions, Information that a signal was "work-
Col Woodhouse concludes with truck them dead.. ing aluggishly," is looked upon Pas
"Then the trash with which Holly- feserving some blame for his care-reference to the improved type of
rolling stock now being brought into wood deluged un forced the dramatie use by the board, including steel ally starved provinces to revive the TAIL LIGHTS CRITICISED
Col. Woodhouse criticises the wetk- bodywork, safety glaze, und Inde: thestre for themselves and snap Ureir-
Angers at Hollywood and London," Boss of tail lights on trains, and pendent lighting..
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