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Married Couples Given "Refresher" Course
The Rev. Alexander Stevenson of Brisbane récently held
n “refresher" course in marriage for ex-prisoners of war and their wives.
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EGYPTIAN
PRINCESS'
FORTUNE
CAIRO. Detalls of the for- tune left by the late Egyptian Princess Chevikiar, have been announced. The combined value of her land, property, jewels and cash holdings made her the wealthiest woman in the world, outside America. Succession duties on her ostate totalled US$2,000,000; so her fortune probably exceeds US$35,000,000.
Mr Stevenson, of St Mary's Church of England, Brisbane, has been urging the "refresheri course since he visited Singapore as an Army padre to repatriatė ex-prisoners of war.
Doubts of ex-prisoners about the durability of their märrlages during the war separation, expressed to him then, convinced him that the Church should help by reminding couples of the joy and hope they felt on their
wedding day.
The Invlled
Kuesta to the "re-
fresher" were 50 couples he had married last year (his first at St. Mary's), their relatives and friends.
Recapturing The Joy
He said: "The iden of the service was to see whether we could re- capture some of the joy that those couples fell on their wedding day,
"Before I marry a couple I point The Princess owned 12.300 fed-out to them the mental and spiritual
of marriage. dans (equal to about 13,000 acres) side
in Lower of extremely rich land Egypt.
In Calro and Alexandria, the Princess owned six lurge and many small buildings as well as a palace and part of a residential area,
Her jewels run into hundreds of thousands of dollars and the amount she left in comh le known to substantial.
Much Married
bo
"I went over that ground again on Sunday.
"The response to my invitation was wonderful. There were 300 people in the church. Scores telephoned me afterwards to say how much they enjoyed the service, which WOG broadcast.
"The Church has got behind in its methods. We must try to present the old truths in a way which will appeal to modern youngsters, In my service I emphasised the tragedy of divorce",
One of the brides who attended the first course was Mrs B. L. Wilson, of O'Connell Street, Kangaroo Point.
Princess Cheviklar, who died in Calro a few months ago, woz be- lieved to be about 70 years of age, She married four times, her list husband being Prince Fund, who She said: "The Rector married us Inter became King Fuad-of. Egypt. {at St. Mary's last October. The Princess was divorced from Prince Fuad before he came to the throne.
She had two
and เง
two daughters by her various husbands and, at the time of her death, was married to Elham! Hussein Pasha, an Egyptian notable.
A woman of great, energy and considerable personal charm, Prin- cess Chevikjar was well-known in
Paris, Rome and other European
capitis.
On
her
"She loved entertaining and her parties were always conducted lavish lines. Shortly before death she gave an evening, reception at her Calro palace which was attended by King Farouk and all the elite of Cairo society.
Elaborato Funoral
She had not been feeling well for some time, but she made a special effort to receive her guests and then retired to bed. A.few days later she died and was accorded a grandiose funeral.
Most of the latę. Princess' wealth Was Inherited from ber brother, Prince Seit-El-Din of Turkey, who once tried to kill Prince Fuad and
who later was kept under special
medical, observation.
mel my husband in England when he was serving in the RAA‚F. There was anellier English war bride at the service, too.
"When they played the "Wedding March" It took us both back to our wedding day.
"My husbar and I both appre-
clated the ser ce. It was inspiring."
Remarkable Sórvice
Avenue, Kangaroo Point, who were Mr and Mrs D. Muir, of Shafsion married at St. Mary's four years ago, apid: "We went to the service watch the reaction
of the younger couples,'
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by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Miss Roach gets boarding-house
nerves
Tia doubtful if Miss Roach will be able to endure it. It
is doubtful if that tormented woman will much longer put up with life at the Rosamund Tea to Rooms, which is a boarding
house and not a tea-room.
Patrick Hamilton, who writes about the unhappy woman in The Slaves of Solitude (Con-
"It was a remarkoble service. The Rector's address was a challenge to all young people to make a success of their marriage.
"All the couples walked out aglow to the strains of the March'."
*Wedding
Mr Stevenson, youthful, lively, and typical of the younger clergy, preached his sermon two days after hearing that he had qualified for an MA with first-class honours, from Queensland University. He seven years in the Army.
served
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Bitter haired springs up between
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VOGER THAN A MADA
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AN AFRICAN WOMAN WILL CARRY A 100 FOUND LOAD ON HER HEAD FOR 20 miles MAHOUT A REST ~ALL FOR SOXPENCE. ? ht
(Solution to Quiz on Page 12)
JESTS AND JEERS
The motor car has almost done away with the horse, but not with the ass,
This season's beach wear merely enlarges their wearers' charms with out enhancing them.
You can read some people like a book, but you can't shut them up quite so easily.
·
Nanking has at last discovered that the civil war cloud basn't a sliver lining.
Overheard in the It:
"So che's married at last? Who's the happy man?”
"Her father."
Some men never go out looking:
home.
GOVARANDREANU for trouble they get enough at
Jumbo the Sea Lion Gets Ulcers And Maybe Girls Are to Blame
By ROBERT RICHARDS (United Press Stant Correspondent)
New York. It might be the It takes 18 months to train a girls. Low Bohon admitted, but performing, sea lion and some of Anyway Jumbo them never make It. Jumbo was captured in the Pacifle Ocean off Santa Barbara, and Bohan bought him for $200,
he isn't sure. the two women, a hatred in which the German has the upper hand She is victorious and insufferable while the English is Austered and outmanoeuvred. Miss Ronch's hate
reaches the point where she begins to believe that, after all, gossip is right: Vicki is a spy!
Climax arrives on the day when Mr Thwaites at last "goes too far." But how differently it works du from all that Miss Rouch expected!
is not The "lootenant"
what he in that black sheep, seems. And
depths are Mr Prest, unsuspected
The story is steadily interesting. quite and has its own individual flavour.
As
A study in nerves as well as character it has understanding 'and wry humour.
stable, 9s. 6d.), makes Misa disclosed.
Roach's frame of mind clear.
He describes the Rosamund Tea Rooms with a kind of affec- tionate horror. At meal-times How many people read George there are awful silences, punc-
Ellot? Has anybody under the
this disregard of a novelist who la, It is strange that there should be as Gerald Bullett shows in his inter-
Originally a Sydney, man, he be- Ituated by still more awful in. ago of 35 read Adam Bede? gan his training at St. Mark's, Dartervals of bright conversation ling Point. Besides being the leading Egyptian Now 43, ho is married, has a between one "separate table" socialite, Princesa Chevikler took a daughter aged 10 and twin sons aged and another. great interest in charitable works 24. and gave large amounts of money to the poor-United Press.
Says he: "I am so happy in my married life I want others to be, tool
GENOCIDE
The New Word from UNO
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By J. POSPISIL Black, 10 pieces.
White, 5 plecos.
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White zo play and mate in three. - Solution to yesterday's problem:
1. K-99, day, 2, 9. 'or. K1
mates.
ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS
Questions on Page 9.
1. Jeweller. I A
a precious stone,
2. (a) G. H., Elliott, (b), G., H.
Chirgwin, (c) George Robey (a)
esting, new blography, George Eliot (Collins, 12s. Od.), in the direct route of English humour which leads from Falstaff to the peasants of. Thomas Hardy.
The Inmates are all conscious of having come down in the world, of having arrived where they are by a pure freak of fate, and of It is stranger still when one thinlts courteously but condescendingly act-
that this willer's life was not with- ing a part in front of their fellow. but, its elements of drama and nd- boarders. Mr Prest is an exceptioned, however, that when George Eliot venture. The suspicion has remain- to this rule. He in "comunon," and kicked over the Victorian traces she has the absent-minded look of an old pugilist.
The Rosamund Tea- somehow did so out of a Victorian sense of duty. Booms ostracises Mr Prest,
When she cast aside nonconformity THE aumaphere alone would have and came to London to be a Radical she found many to ad- been quiet enough for Miss mire but few to love. Reach, who nearing 43, sensitive
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"Jumbo is a fine performer," Bohan said, 'f I could just keep him from being jealous of other
It always gets him
has Ulcers.
Jumbo is 23-year-old sea Hon. He carns $800 a week.
Jumbo, who has a face like a dog if you get.close enough to see it, is now working at the Fashion Fair in Madison Square Garden performers. and the pretty models bother into trouble. In Now York, it's him. Sea lions are proud of their an ulcer. In Baltimore, it was a tricks, and it burns
Jumbo up dying cowboy."
when
people turn from him to Jumbo and his master were stars at the women.
appearing in a sports show.
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Jumbo Steals Show "There's a very sad seeno In another man's act," Bohon said, why, it almost made me cry. This cowboy is dying, he's lying down on the floor and suffering all over the
place.
Chivalry is a man's inclination to protect a girl from everybody except: himself.
A Hollywood star was talking to a childhood friend.
"It took me six years to discover. that I had absolutely no talent for acting."
"How discouraging!" murmurext. the friend, "Did you think of quit- ting?"
"Of course not, replied the star. "By that time I was making a quar- ter of a million dollars a year."
BARNYARD MUSIC FATTENS PIGS
Music
Is- being utilised to help- fatten the 3,500 pigs on the Licht man Bros. farm in Westville Grove,
New Jorsey. "I wasn't around the night it happened. Jumbo got out of his age and made straight for the stage. He plauding and he wanted to be out there in front.
heard the audience op-
"I've been working, with him for 10 years," Bohan explained, "and he's always the same. lons
Just don't like competition, He's got a brother named Shar- key working with my father-in- law right now over at the Roxy Theatre. Put them on the same stage and what happens? In two minutes, they'd be fighting."
Most people don't understand about salons, Bohnn anld. They may weight 400
pounds, like Jumbo, but they're sensitive.
Catches His Fish
The poor cowboy was dying "Another funny thing about bravely when Jumbo came up them," Béhan said, "smart ts and stuck his nose in his face. they are, you must teach a cap- Then, when this didn't stop the tive sca lion to eat. Put a pall show, Jumbo walked over to a of Ash in front of him, and he'll box, climbed up on It, and start- etarve. All he knows about is how ed to catch his dinner on the run:
cowboy was almost sore. Nobody ever taught him to eat enough to fight about it.: dead ones."
But what could I do?" asked But once they learn, sea lions Bohan. "That Jumbo. Is oll ham are hearty caters. Jumbo knocks and a yard wide. Nobody can off 13 pounds of fresh fish daily, stop him from acting."
FROM HERE AND THERE
Applauding
Morris Lichtman and his brothers, Norman and Louis, put two loud speakers on a pole in the bamyard of their 30-acre pig farm. They attached the amplifiers to a portable radio.
- The music soothes the pigs and they eat more-and get fatter more quickly, the brothers explained. They don't fight much, either, with the music calming them. Whereas the brothers once lost three percent of their pigs through fighting, now they lose only one percent.
The pigs, the brothers said, care ivery little for, five music. They [dike. Guy Lombardo und Bing
Crosby, particularly.
AUSTERITY REACHES EGYPT
blocked.
A draft convention defining the word "genocide" (the ex- termination of races) and out- lining the punishment of indivi- there is the torture meted out to pier, she formed "n deliciously calm and depressed. But on top of it With Herbert Spencer, philoso- duals and Governments who her dally by Mr Thwaites, a tiresome friendship." Knowing that marriage should commit this crime elderly man who delights in making would mean working
Alexandria-With for a living.
sterling received £200 for her abare in suffer an "ugliness complex" and her against human beings, Was
for running tin cases of except
hashish from imagino everyone is looking at their her appear ridiculous at the dinner Herbert put it aside as quite un-balances drawn
the show's feet. up by the United | table.
reasonable. He was a very reason £8,000,000. Egynt has started her Palestine to Egypt in
She revealed
the
2- VATICAN TELEVISION Nations secretariat.
able man.
first austerity drive: The Importa- property truck.
Vatican City-For the first Ume Romance, of a sort, belatedly
tion of luxuries, such as perfumes, amount of her share in Gaza when
entered What would have happened if she sills, wines and Scotch whiskey, is giving evidence as "King's witness" enters her life when an American "Lootenant" begins to have his meals had been beautiful enough to make banned. Pleasure travelling is also before an examining magistrate in in the boarding-house.
the friendship less calm and more prohibited. Throughout the war open court. But her delicious? No more philosophy from Egypt had plenty of all luxury goods troubles start in curnest only when Herbert and better novels her German friend Vicki Kugelmann George? comes to stay there.
If the crime of genocide had exist-
the
That the American
excited In
brevity.
from
land food.
of:
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and
cas.
in papak history television
com-
ed in International law, with a tribu-
the Vatican when the Pope watched nal to enforce It, during the persecu
a choir singing in
the consistory tion of the Jews by Hitler or the at-
WORMING IT OUT
hall from his private library Tho tempted extermination of
Vancouver-Earthworms bred in demonstration was organised by the Armenians under the old Ottoman
FILM EXPANSION
British Columbin may be used in Radlo Corporation of Empire, Germany and Turkey could
reclamation As things turned out, she lived Rotterdam The Bank group. has the
wur-ravaged
`LEGGY ARGUMEN have been indleted and brought to
New York-Among male considered Lewes, acquired one-third of the capital of Dutch soil. They are is charmed openly with George Henry book. The convention lists mas-
by this slightly shop-worn siren is, Journalist, who had every qualifica- the Dutch Tushinski cinema concern, valuable agents for the removal of ments on the
most controverstul aneres, forced labour, brutal biologi perhaps, only to be expected, But tion for Victorian married life save which controls 12 cinemas in Amster salt deposits from the soil would Amarican
ba used in formerly fooded
women-stion-longer skirts for cal
Каус experiments, sterilisation and the
dam, Rotterdam and The Hague. that Mr Thwaites allows himself one. He was already married.
RUSSIA SAYS prevention of marringes as being to be
don't mind, I'vo Lewes has been much maligned, that peculiarly Ile seems to have possessed a fively
FROZEN TRADE
got a good mem the chief racial crimes. umoni
Moscow-General andignified way-to the
Budapest-In temperature
a
MacArthur's mory:" Publicist Herbert Bayard Punishment would be moted out going to the cinema with Vicki! He was a born husband for a lady out
point of mind and a sympathetic personality. 98 in the shade, Budapest was with headquarters is deliberately keeping Swope "They're neither concealing to individuals or 'to Governments nothing, surely, could throw a more novelist.
Ico because
economic Soviet, British and French allms off nor revealing, Just dull;" Jimmy the George Eliot loved him police
Japanese Ice the arrested the carriers. committing them either by national sinister light on
screens, ponnitting Stewart Long dresses are going to. the German's with devotion and mourned him with blacketeers had driven up the price Hollywood
to monopolise courts or by an International penal influence.
the interfere
with a very fine hobby," -film Japanese to half-a-crown & glab.
-Industry, alleges Baseballer Joe Dimaggio "What a In the case of Govern- tribunal
CRUSHING WELCOME Izvestia. The same amples to, Allled break for bowlegged girls." |ments, by n
mitice of the Security Council.
special judicial com-
Adelaide Over-many hearty books and magazines, mittee.
ON RECORD. BRITAIN AGAIN!
Home Signor Australian handshakes crushed Field The Convention on Genocide will
to New York. Andre! go first to. the Economic and Social
Marshal Montgomery's angers
Gromyko, Rome the full name was withheld delegate such an extent that he appeared at Rusala's sober-faced Council for ratification and then to
An Antholory of Love and Yi-Hatch (Lehmann, 80. 6d.) These official engagements with a bandaged UNO, blamed the British for recording machine installed in his the State members of the
Marriage, H. Yaffe. (Faber, 8s. (d.)
hand. The mighty hand- America's
Ten recorda were taken Nations for Incorporation into their Exploring the subject in all its stories are three hundred years old right
have been export and produced as evidence by Ignazio body of law.
aspects, this rich collection of wisdom in Chinese and very modern in clasp of a Desert veteran in Hobait, Gaid he ing saucers liters, house.
ing too much Scotch whiskey to when he denounced his wife for They have their own started the trouble. and folly begins by asking, with English.
WEALTH
adultery, New York-Department of Agri-
*ICE ON ICE John Donne, The heavens rejoice qualities of sublety and delight. in motion; why should I abjure my Philadelphia. Struthers Burt.
JohannesburgHigh-heeled shoes. culturo economists estimate that
Montreal It has happened ot now. worth are the chief so much loved variety?" Excellent
equse of nerves, last. The Icebreaker. Nuocople left America's farmers are
timea more hysterics, spinal diseases and head here today with a cargs of leoboxes £25,000,000,000, four
oches among women, said Dr N. S. for Eskinos. They are to be distri- before WO reach that
than before, the war.
Priestor DRUG MUNNING '
to the South African buted in a Ave-month long trip. Jerusalem. A woman member of Association for the Advancement of which will take the ship several British Forces entertainment. Science. Correct shoes, however, are thousand miles around the Arctic Tshow "Juke Box" WHE to have so ugly that women who wear them coast.
United
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The
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