1939-02-03 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 3, 1939

News Snack

With the object of providing comfort for baby and solving a problem for mothers and nurses a napkin washing service. has been started in London. Nappies Deliy- ery Service collects, washes, ster- ilises and delivers napkins wrapped in celophanė, Photo shows how the babies' napkins are packed in sterilised enamel containers. The girls handling them all wear hy- genic masks and gloves.

BOUGHT 411,000

TOOTHBRUSHES

1938 BOOM IN

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GIRL MARRIAGES

Marriages of couples under twenty-one, and parti- cularly of boys and girls of sixteen, lowest legal age, increased during the past year. Registrars all over London noted this trend.

TRADESMEN FRONT DOOR

This picture tells its OWN story. Can you read it? The photogr Q- pher found the police outside a cobber's shop in a back street

at Lynton, North Devon,

SET HAIR-

STYLE

Verna Vis-

The Registrar of Hackney, saya Because people who call at the sixteen to men

that he has married four girls of countess Chur- home of Mrs. King, of Hoe Bridge one of the bridegrooms being only death took under twenty-one, chill whose Estate, Old Woking, Surrey, fright- sixteen. en away birds who come to feed on breadcrumbs in her garden a no- for these youngsters have gone up, "In the past year or so, wàges tice has been placed on her gate. reading: "All tradesmen kindly MORE WAGES, FREEDOM use front door-not to disturb the birds in the garden."

Bess, a retriever, oldest dog at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, has died, aged sixteen

years--the ...equivalent of 112 years of human

life.

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Although he has lived in London for twenty years, Mr. Richard Al- fred Ware, Harrow-road, Padding- ton, W., has never been inside a

cinema.

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Mr. James Gordon, eighty-five, of Little Downham, Ely (Cambs), still farms three acres of land and keeps pigs. Until five years ago he walked five miles every Thursday to market.

WHEN LAUNGHING IS FUN

Over 411,000 tooth brushes were purchased from England for the use of British soldiers in India in 1937- 38, according to a Delhi report. This .was an increase of 106,000 "Stinks" masters would h havé over the figure for 1936-37.

envied the rapt attention which Other purchases included: several hundred schoolchildren 968,000 yards of mosquito netting gave Dr. James Kendall, professor from England, and 65,000 yards of chemistry, when he lectured at bought in India; 206,511 pairs of the Royal Institution (London). puttees: 106,000 yards of shirting, High spot of the afternoon came and 118,390 woollen vests.

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ELECTRIC HORNS-ON CARS

BANNED IN BOMBAY

No electric horns will be per- mitted on cars in Bombay from April 1, this year.

The ban is an experimental one lasting only six months, bút it is stated that in all probability it will become permanent.

The measure is designed to re- duce the nuisance from excessive use of powerful electric horns. Al- ready there is a run on bulb horns. The news will not surprise those who know Bombay. Technique of local drivers is similar to that of Paris drivers

go flat out and depend on a horn to prevent ac- cidents. Wealthy local-born folk have a real love for going about like a fire-engine on a brigade call.

when Dr. Kendall "gassed" to them about gases. With memories of visits to the dentist, the audience watched fascinated as a demonstra- tor no volunteers-inhaled laugh- ing gas and cheerfully allowed the lecturer to stick a pîn into him.

BUMPS THAT

ADD KNOWLEDGE

Motor accidents have given sur. geons a new term-bumper frac- tures. Dr. A. H. Gregson, of Don- caster Infirmary, said at a Don- caster inquest yesterday that frac- tures of both legs immediately be- low the knee, caused by a person being struck by bumper-bars, were NOW common. The terms "bumper-facturo" was given to these cases and used in medical text books.

John," the shoebill at the London Zoo, has to be fed by hand as ho will not pick up his food--although "goodness knows his bill, is large enough. Photo shows. John about to sample a spoonful of ced fish-hó is quite faddy about his food.

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78, set a new hair style near the London at

close of the Victorian era by wear- ing a single curl on her forehead. Only close friends knew that the "They have more money, and curl hid a scar received when Via- also more freedom. They have countess Churchill, a fearless rid- their half-days off, and they get er to hounds, was struck by a about and meet each other at: branch while riding through clubs for sport, cycling or hik- wood. ing, and as they come in contact younger, so they marry younger. "There is more freedom of thought, too. Many of the parents agree with these early marriages." BLONDES TOO RECKLESS

A Registrar at Lambeth thought FOR CHESS the girls wanted to settle down earlier than they did in the past. Blondes are no good at chess. "The girl is always pleased to They can't concentrate; they are become Mrs. So-and-so," he said. too reckless. So says Mr. A. Rider, "She seems thrilled at the prospect director of the Hastings Chess of a home of her own."

German refugees in large num- bers will be trajned as, agricul turists and settled in the Empire by the Society of Friends if the Government consents and the money can be raised. Already a number of refugees are being trained at three centres and after a year's training efforts will be made to settle them in the Colon-. ies or Dominions. This picture was taken at Flint Häll Farm, Hamble- den, near Henley on Thames, and the boys are receiving a lesson in ploughing.

A.R.P. TO GET UNDERGROUND

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Hull is to have underground A.R.P. headquarters, so that, in the event of air-raids taking place, there will be no disorganisa- tion. The new offices will be in' a building where large underground rooms will be equipped for the im- mediate transfer in emergency.

CHURCH'S BUSINESS CHIEF

Sir Philip Wilbraham Baker- Wilbraham hàn been appointed First Church Estates Commission- or in succession to the late Sir George Middleton.

Congress, where the games are played in silence broken only by the ticking of the move-timing clocks.

"Fair-haired people," said Mr. Rider, "men and women alike, 'do not seem to have the powers of con- · centration n necessary for the game, They become nervous and reckless under the strain of the competition atmosphere, in which brunettes are at their ease. Among foreign visi tora, although Germans are domin- ant, there is not a single blonde Nordic among them."

Who cares? Or maybe it is that chess is not suitable to blondes.

This has nothing to do with mental ability. Have you ever heard of a great chess player being, any- thing except a great chess play- er? But 'blondes have built Em-* pires.

MORE DRAW POOR RELIEF

The number of persons in receipt of poor relief in England and Wales for the quarter ended Sep- tember 30, 1938, was 1,030,976, a decrease of 9,876 when compared with the corresponding total at the end of June, but an increase of 13,659 when compared with the end of Semptember last year.

THEY MUSTN'T GROW CHRYSANTHEMUMS

So serious in the view taken of [a_`foreign, pest known as the chrysanthemum midge, which has appeared in the east end of Bel- fast, that the Ministry of Agri-, culture has prohibited the grow- ing of chrysanthemanis in” thatį.

area.

An official said that if the] midgo · became established the growing of chrysanthemums would become imper Ject of the... profilbition... starve out the pést.