1939-01-26 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 26, 1939

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PARIS SETS RULES FOR EATING

“Gastronomie · commandments” have been drawn up by the Association of Gastronomes in Paris for the enjoyment of meals.

"Never dance or smoke while eating" is Rule

No. 1.

chef.

To do either is regarded as a sin against the

Both dancing and smoking, however, are re- commended once coffee is served at the end of the meal... but not one moment before.

PRESENTED FROM COURT

From London police courts:— Solicitor at Highgate: Is your husband alive?-Well, I cooked breakfast this morning.

Woman at Ealing: My husband Even his has always been mean. love letters used to côme without a stamp on the envelope.

Woman witness at Islington: The man did not seem to want to speak to me, so I decided he was drunk.. It was, the only con- clusion I could come to.

U.S. PLANS

HUGE NAVAL MOVE

"Waiters must keep completely silent during a meal" is another commandment. The Association adds that it does not consider. it his "improper" for the host and guests to converse as they desire-- but their talk must be restricted to the menu or food generally.

The food and wines should be served so that their savours mount in crescendo, like a musical orches- tration, to a climax the great-

est dish coming last.

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A five seater cycle is owned by Mr. J. W.-Sargeant of Frithville, near Boston, Lines. It is 12ft. 6 inches long and with five men pedalling will reach a speed of twenty-five miles per hour. It was built forty years ago to pace a track cyclist and has just had a now set of tyres fitted. Photo shows the five seater cycle with its "Uncle Tom Cobleigh” riders.

Finally, the proper time for ser- ving cheese has been set down "before the dessert." Copies of the Commandments are being distri- SUES FOR DIVORCE

buted all over France.

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FASCISTS NEARLY WIPED OUT

Jacqueline Delubac has entered Figures for the Polish municipal May make a few folk smile, but a suit for divorce against Sacha elections show heavy losses for the they

Guitry, prominent French actor and Fascist and all Right Wing groups. take eating seriously France

and whatever we can playwright, on the ground of de- In some districts the Fascists were In Warsaw, teach them in some things, when it sertion of their conjugal home, almost wiped out.

humble says Reuter. The application was where there are 100 seats, only two

a Fascists got in: And anyway, all accepted, but there remains

month for reconciliation attempts. M. Guitry, it is reported, also in- tends to apply for divorce.

The naval concentration in the comes to food Caribbean Sea between February "learners."

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and April will be the greatest in the above is sound -sense. the history of the United States. More than 160 surface ships and twenty submarines' and 63,800 men and officers are to take part in the manoeuvres. The results are ex- pected to provide data for formu- lating plans for the defence of the Panama Canal.

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POST OFFICE PAY INCREASES

elec- These are the first "free" tions since the pro-Nazi parties. captured the country in 1929. Significant?

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DOUGHBOYS GROW UP

"Doughboys"

States (United troops) will wear long "pants"

89 Nearly 150,000 Post Office em- NEW RECORDER trousers are talled in America--as ployees, ranging from telegraphists enclosed from February 1. Up till now and telephonists to cleaners, have Panama "Doughboys" have worn breeches. been informed of a Civil Service

British The Army is also testing uniforms Arbitration Tribunal "rise."

of slate,blue as a substitute for khaki.

The Caribbean is the stretch of water between and the Atlantic, with islands at all points around. But who is the possible enemy. Japan or Germany?

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"IDEAL TOWN" NON-DRINKERS

DEMAND POLL

People of Letchworth, Herts, town of 15,000 inhabitants with not a single public-house are demand- ing a poll on the temperance ques- tion.

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It is not the would-be drinkers who are pressing the demands, but those opposed to having licensed `premises in the district!

Magistrates refused an applica- tion for a public-house to be erect- ed just outside the town's borders. Then a storm arose when the First Garden City Company proposed - to... lease a site for the erection of a public-house near the town's cen- tre. That plan, too, has been aban- doned.

Spurred on by this success, pro- hibitionists now want a poll to show, as they hope, that the people don't want a "pub" at any price. :

Letchworth is the "ideal" town planned by Sir Ebenezar Howard, thirty-five years ago.

MODEL A.R.P. TRENCHES

Thirty

of A.R.P. trenches, dug on Clapham Common, London, S.W., have been made permanent with steel lining.

Mr. Edward Anthony Hawke, son of Mr. Justice Hawke, has been ap- pointed Recorder of Bath. He was and is It is estimated that the decision called to the Bar in 1920 of the Tribunal will add about third senior `counsel to the Trea- Let's hope they'll hand out de- £1,500,000 to the annual wages bill sury.

of the Post Office. cent hats as well.

-Practically every grade receives an increase, The largest grade are the postmen, numbering 65,000.

Mention skating in London and one immediately thinks of Wem- bley. What surely must be the most unique rink in the world, `however, is in the heart of New York, in the Rockefeller Plaza, it Ismet but amid the skyscrapers, and daily is thronged with skateri

· both young and old, with án:nöpre- élátive audience around.” “Phot shows ontkuslauta skalings.

For a postman the new range of the annual increments is 48s. 6d. to a maximum of 62§. 6d., compared with the existing 588.-

London

Women telephonists in will have a maximum of 668, a week instead of 618. 6d.; in Outer Lon- don 63s. instead of 598.; and in the, provinces, Class One 62s. 6d.; in- stead of 58s. 6d.

For night telephonists and call; office attendants in London the new maximum will be 758. રી week against.698.

For counter clerks and telegra- phists the new maximum will be 1088. instead of 1018. 6d.

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STOPPED PLAY FOR RADIO

"Waiting for Lefty," the play by Clifford Odets, the U.S. "Left wing” playwright, which was stopped in' the Chester Royal Theatre is to be broadcast in March.

During the presentation of the play by the Merseyside Left Thea- tre Club the curtain was rung down in the middle of a scene and the 'orchestra played the National An- them. Odeta I husband of flim

MINIATURE FENCERS Foit CHARITY. · Miss Eleanor Mac- Donald, the well-known English. professional dancer, has an un- usual, hobby. She dresses dolls as: fencers and then gives them to charity. The dolls dresses, fen-

·cing masks and folls are correct p

scale and the folls are made from the ends of starklärd fölls. Photo ałtowa Mins – Eleanor. MacDonald