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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 7, 1988.

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WILL MRS. ROOSEVELT CURTSY?

The King and Queen having consented to visit the White House should Mrs. Roosevelt curtsy to them?· ~ This is ‹à¦burn- ing question in Washington,

When questioned during Press conference, Mrs. Roosevelt said that she knew nothing about the etiquette of entertaining royalty. "I guess I will do what- ever the protocol 'division of the State Department instructs me to do." she said,

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The protocol experts, who wers next consulted, declined to give a ruling on the question until it had been officially "presented to thèm.

The correspondent of the "New York Herald-Tribune," however, reports that the consensus of opinion is that the customary American forms of social greet- ing would be the thing, instead of a curtsy. The fact that Ma- dame Lebrun curtsïed to their Majesties last summer in Paris is not regarded as establishing a precedent. Most experts hold that the wife of the President is equal in rank to the heads of, other Governments.

EASIER BIRTH

METHOD FOUND

Women in England need no longer suffer pain at

childbirth. At the same time they need not re- sort to drugs or anaesthetics.

These have more a simple,

New methods of preparing for births have been

discovered by a woman doctor. the effect of making it once natural process.

zies threatened to resign, but was carry him three times round the persuaded to retain his post.

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PLACE IN TROPICAL SUN

town hall. It's a custom that's 'been observed in Laugharne for 547 years.

Laugharne

(population 1,000).

The Aga Khan caused a sensa- lies five miles from Pendine Sands. tion in London by a speech on Co- It was granted a charter by King lonies in which he declared he had John. Portreeve's chain of golden no sympathy the white man's point shells symbolises the town's famed of view. Nevertheless, Germany cockle industry. was certain to claim a place in the.

tropical sun, and it should be po- ATTEMPTING THE sible, with the aid of Geneva, to come to some rearrangement Africa.

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PROFITS IN THE CRISIS

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Fashion experts are proposing to shorten bathing suits by an inch!

WELL CAUGHT SIR. George, the King Penguin at the London Zoo, catching a fish in the man- ner of the expert watched by his companion Peter..

The “Daily Mail" states that the

This news is seriously perturb- Originator of the new method is Home Office has called a confer- ing wool growers of Australia. "It Dr. Kathleen Olga Vaughan. She ence of contractors to consider the may seem a matter of minor im-. returned recently from France, 500 per cent. increase in the price portance to most people," says the of air raid precaution materials. at secretary of the Australian Wool Board, "but the total amount of

PEACE AGAIN ON Since then, fifteen Englishwomen, the peak of the recent crisis.

Manufacturers, it statės, will as-

wool involved in such several of them wives of other doc-

a change HOME FRONT would be very large.” tors, have given birth after being sist the Government to avoid a re- under Dr. Vaughan's care. In petition of this retail profiteering.

where she tried her method out.

every case there was success.

"Regular physical exercise and

not too much food.

'Nature's

way,'" is how Dr. Vaughan des- cribes her method.

Some months before the babies are expected the mothers are asked to attend a hospital daily for strenuous keep-fit training.

"Civilisation has made English- women 'soft." Most expectant mothers think they must rest and eat all they can. They are wrong.

"When they cease to look on themselves as interesting invalids and become like athletes-training their muscles into flexibility-na- ture will be able to take its course

and not till then.”

"The exercises I have developed. are, the result of long research- and they prove what I contend.”

SHIPPING FOR SHIPOWNER

You'd hardly suspect this to be Maureen O'Sullivan. It is, nevertheless, as a choir boy in

her new picture.

One of the principal. tasks 38- signed to Lord Runciman, new Pre-**- sident of the Council, în succession to Lord Hailsham, is that of re- organising, the British mercantile Trades unionists are prepared to marine, says a message from Lon- adjust labour charges, but some don.

GÖERING VISIT

Reports that General Goering may visit England with,

h a view to

authorities have already paid bills which have saddled municipalities with fabulous sums.

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BRITISH OFFICER WOUNDED

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improving Anglo-German political Mr. Herbert Fiddes, third en- relations are accompanied by ex gineer on the British ship Harpa- planations as to why Herr Hitler gon, is in the Misericordia Hospital cannot visit London himself. at Leixoes, Portugal, with a serious Herr Hitler's position, it is point throat wound, according to a re- ed out, would convert the visit into port reaching Lisbon, a big affair of State and in addi tion there might be unpleasant in- FOR THE 548TH TIME cidents.

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It is, indeed, hinted that General When" Laugharne (Carmarthen- Goering would spend more time in shire) Holds Its Big Court Leet and Yorkshire than in London, because Court Baròn thể viçar, Alderman of possible auti Nazi demonstra, the Rev. S. B. Williams, will be tions by Left-Wing organisations.

CABINET DISPUTE

elected to the office of Portreeve for the third successive year, will put, în a chain of golden cockle shells, and... It is revealed that during defence common attorneys, and other, court I appoint, a grand jury, discussions fri the Australian Cap officials. Then the burgesses will inet on defence problems, Mt. Men- seize him, hoist him on a chair and

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Clerk at Wood Green (London) Police Court: I believe you are now living happily with your husband?^ Wife: Yes. Yesterday a neigh bour offered his services to help us adjust our differences

and now everything is all right.

RONALD COLMAN

MARRIED AGAIN

Top-line film star Ronald Colman hás married again, this time at Santa Barbara, California, His bride was actresa Benita Hume, BRITAIN DRINKS MORE BEER ⠀ who, like Colman himself, is Eng- lish. He is forty-seven; she is. thirty-two.

Excise returns show that in the first eight months of 1988 the num- Best man was Tim M'Coy, star ber of standard barrels of home- of the cowboy film days and a Cali- made beer charged with duty in fornian colonel. Guest of honour Great Britain and Northern Ireland was another English actress, Hea ther Thatcher.

FARM MOVED BY TRAIN

was 11,976,296 (against 11,698,807 for the corresponding months last year.) The total constitutes a re- cord for several years past..

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A special train has moved an en- MERLE OBERON INSURES tire farm from St. Clears, Carmar- thenshire, to Sussex. Mr. T. TRIP TO BRITAIN FOR £6,000 Howells, of Little Burrows Farm, decided to move, and the contents of his home, livestock, implements and other things, were placed on the train.

SHE IS AWAITING 100TH DESCENDANT

Mrs. Mary Blackney, ninety-. two, South Park-road, Wimble- don, is expecting a telegram an- nouncing the birth of an addition to her big family-the_baby_of Mrs. Elsie Ogben, of Commonside * East, Mitcham, ~

Mrs. Ogben is Mrs. Blackney's great-grand-daughter. But feren that is not the most important" part of this event for Mrs. Black- ney. For the now baby will be her one hundredth descendant, Band it has been her ambition 'to

see this "century" completed.

Mrs. Blackney,・・ white-haired and still very active, has had three husbands and ten children.

children, and four great-great- She has thirty-eight grandchild. ren, forty-seven great-grand-

{grandchildren already?

Merle Oberon, the British film star, is to insure her next visit to England for £6,000.

She has to make the voyage for business reasons of her own... But it is so important that she be back at Hollywood on time for further film work that she refused to make the trip unless she was sure there would be financial compensation if she was late.

TERROR OF CAR THIEVES

After twenty-nine years' service, Detective-Inspector Robert Halli- day, of the Metropolitan Police, has retired. As chief of the Fly- ing Squad he was responsible for the recovery of £250,000 worth of stolen cars-a record. Не älso helped to bring to justice seven murderers. He is forty-nine.

SOLD "VELETA” FOR 5 GNS.

The Veleta, world-famous dance meant little financially to the com- poser the late Arthur Morris, of Scarfeld, near Lædds. (He died last August, aged seventy-nine, left only £248.) All that he re- cefved for the Veleta was five guiness.