1938-11-09 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 9, 1938 ·

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WHERE WOMEN ARE AFRAID OF MARRIAGE

Miss Una Marson, young coloured social worker from Jamaica, has gone to England to ask a tax on bachelors in Jamaica.

She made her suggestion to the Royal Commission who are investigating the bad conditions in the West Indian islands.

This little girl, enföying a holi- day on a farm, evidently believes that "every little helps" at harvest time.

BARGAINS IN

CROWN JEWELS

Some of the most famous Russian Crown jewels have found their

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The illegitimate birth-rate in Jamaica, said Miss Marson, was 75 per cent.-the highest in any civi- lised country in the world.

She then suggested that men and women who lived together for over ten years, and reared a family, should be considered as married,

and that their children should not ONE WAY ON

Mr. Chamberlain's straight flush.

CELEBRATING HIGH POLITICS POKER be stigmatised as illegitimate. Miss Marson said that in Jamaica,

One of the oldest working cattle. as

"Apres Munich" is the title of a elsewhere, it was the women who

drovers in England, Mr. Henry picture postcard, now having a always suffered. Men did not seem

Sheen, of

Russell-place, King's vogue in Switzerland, of which we to care much. In many cases they Lynn (Lincs.), celebrated his eigh have received a copy. It explains did not know whether their child- tieth birthday by walking non-stop the Munich Conference in terms of ren were being supported or not.

from King's Lynn to Hunstanton poker as Mr. Chamberlain would “Would it not help to get some

and back thirty-two milés. system of registration of fathers?" asked Dame Rachel Crowdy.

ried," she added.

L.N.E.R. CHAIRMAN RESIGNS

doubtless interpret it. Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini, in the fore- ground, hold four-of-a-kind hands. Miss Marson thought it would,

The Fuehrer, with four aces, is yet that alone could not solve the Mr. William Whitelaw, seventy- smiling, and the Duce régards his problem...

year-old, chairman of the LN.E.R., four kings with obvious compla- "They don't seem to get on so has resigned, because, so he states, cency. well together after they are mar- of his age. Heavy personal res- The imaginative photographer ponsibilities he has had to assume has snapped them presumably after "Who is the most afraid of mar- owing to the death of his brother, they have seen M. Daladier's hand riage?" she was asked.

is given as an additional reason. -three-of-a-kind and a pair "I think it is about equal. The He was the L.N.E.R.'s first chair- which is not good enough to beat men don't want to be tied and the man.

But He is succeeded by Sir Ron- theirs.

Mr. Chamberlain women feel that the men very often ald W. Matthews.

thereupon lays down his take advantage of them and do not

straight flush, that is, a sequence want to work so hard after they ZERO HOUR FOR COAL SHIPS

of five cards of the same suit, are married,” was her reply.

against which, as every poker-play- er knows, argument is vain.

BARGAIN STRUCK

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Ships are hurrying cargoes in the annual autumn race to Canada. The River St. Lawrence is begin-

"My wife said she would willing- ning to freeze shortly. The ships, way to a Bradford jeweller's shop ly leave me if I gave her fifteen carrying Welsh anthracite coal, where they can be bought over the shillings, so I willingly gave her must run the blockade of rapidly counter.

fifteen shillings." A witness at forming ice, unload and get out Among them are the Bishop's Willesden, London.

again before the great freeze-up. cuffs, set with pearls and emeralds, which were worn by the Bishops at £80,000-A-YEAR—~PLUS the Coronation of every Czar since. the time of Ivan the Terrible.

Frank Capra, Hollywood film.

GERMANY'S FIRST COLONY. director famous for many success- Britain's Cabinet changes are

They can be bought for 580 the ful films, including "Lost Horizon" quite inadequate for the situation pair, though they are probably and "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," created by the Munich Agreement, worth three times that sum..

gets a salary of £80,000 a year, plus declares the "Manchester 25

Guar- per cent. of all the profits of his dian." tional Labour Relations Board at it declares. It was a peace pro films, it was stated before the Na-

Munich was never a just peace, Los Angeles.

With them is an altar cloth worth many thousands of pounds. It is of fine Russian embroidery worked in pearls, sapphires and rubies on pearl-pink satin with a great phire forming the centre,

The sale price is £456

SOME. HAVE ALL THE LUCK!

Mr. George Cawley, tree-feller, Chertsey, is either very unlucky or

VICAR PRAYS FOR darned lucky--whichever way you

ALTAR THIEVES

Preaching at a harvest festival; the. Rev. A. M. Parr, vicar of Bream, near Lydney (Glos), pray- ed earnestly "for peace and for sinners in his parish.”

The sinners to whom he refer red were thieves who had raided the church just before the survicë and had stolen grapes and other fruit. The altar was practically stripped,

DOUBLE JOB OF IT

look at it.

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He fell 70ft, from a tree and was unharmed. Twice a lorry in which he was driving overturned and he escaped. Blasting powder exploded prematurely and only his hands were burned. His house caught fire and he and his family escaped through a window.

Mr. Cawley attributes his escapes to presence of mind more than 'any kindness of Fate.

COUP PLOTTED?

the

A London newspaper, on strength of messages from a cor- The Rev. and Mrs. Philip Hall respondent in Prague, alleges that have solved the problem of paro- Hungarian troops" in plain clothes chial visits. They ride a tan- are ültering into the part of Ru- dem. Mr. Hall is minister at the thenia not handed over by tho Fernhead road Methodist Church, Vienna award. Queen's Park, London, NW. Re cently he and his wife completed 600-mile tour of Denmark an Sweden.

Rumours of an attempted coup care circulating, with Poland cre- dited with assuring Hungary of her support:

duced by fear and Europe is more turbulent than ever, with Czecho- slovakia already converted-into-a- German Colony.

One of the oldest observatories In the world is the famous Paris Observatory-which celebrated: its 271st birthday this year. A fea ture of the observatory is the camera equipment. One of the giant astrophotographic, cameras"- to take pictures of the noon is suring a yard in diameter, Photo over 50ft. long and has a lena mea shows how the operator works the

huge long focus cam

HOME OFFICE OPENS PUB

A Home Office workingman's "Pub de Luxe" has been opened in the heart of Carlisle,

Inn sign is a painting of two famous Cumberland wrestlers. George. Steadman and Hexham Clark, And the name? -the Cumberland. Wrestlers.

Built in an English 18th Cen- tury style with brick walls, stone dressings and green slate roof, the inside is panelled with oak, elm, and "black bean”-

-an Aus- tralian wood.

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There are fires in large open grates flanked with pews, carved in the walls.

MERCHANT MILITISM

Mr. Hector Bywaters, naval cor- respondent of the "Daily Tele- graph" says that the British Gov- ernment is - taking measures" to speed up the provision of gun mountings on merchant craft. He adds that Britisk ships are receiv- ing only one mounting, but Italy, Germany and Japan are far ad- vanced with mountings on most of their ships already, both fore and aft.

P.O. SETS AN EXAMPLE

To illustrate efforts to keep mo-- dern post offices clean and attrac- tive, Mr. H. W. Wallace (Union of Post Office Workers); told the Civil Service

fite with