1939-02-06 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 6, 1939

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GIRLS WARNED OF "STRONG MAN" IDOL

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Women are warned against the modern "Strong Man" idol.

They are told that not only in Fascist countries, but in Britain were influences which would make women mere breeding-machines, and that they must fight the threat of a new Dark Age before it was too late.

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The call came from Mrs. A. MacMillan, presi- dent, at the opening of the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers at Eastbourne.

She said women had broken bad old traditions, had made their way into new professions, had open- ed new horizons. But now they found those hori- zons closing again.

PRESENTED FROM COURT

From Highgate Police Court: Witness (of road crash); l' be- came aware of a policeman stand- ing near, and something told me I had better go unconscious, again.

Husband: I begrudge my wife nothing, providing she gives it back.

Street Merchant: It was the quickest business venture I had ever done. Within two minutes 15. 6d. had changed hands!

CHURCH TOWER IS GIRLS' DINING ROOM

"We find, in the words of Aldous Huxley, a world where ‘humani- tarianism is visibly declining; the idolatrous worship of strong men is on the increase,'” she said.

** * * “PRIVILEGE" OF WAR

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"We find a world in which 'women are steadily losing ground in the English-speaking countries, and pro- bably in all democracies,' while in the Fascist countries they are mere- ly breeding-machines.

"Woman is the subordinate of the man in this new society; her main function is to produce and raise healthy children as the future sol- diers of a mighty irresistible mili- tary machine.

"According to the German Gov- A tower in Upper Thames-street, *nment: 'Women's task is to be E.C., all that remains of a church dren", and "There is no higher or charming, and to give birth to chil- destroyed in the Great Fire of Lon- finer privilege, for a woman' than don, has been converted by a neigh- that of sending her

bouring church into a dining-hall and rest-room for London business girls.-J. Durrant, 18,

Grosvenor- road, Leyton, E.10.

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A six-months baby born to Mr- and Mrs. W. Fleming, of 29, Cross- ley-street, Barnsbury, N., on New Year's Eve, weighed only 2lb. and was given ten minutes to live. It

is now thriving on brandy, glucose and water, fed from a fountain-pen filler.

Two hundred and forty-four years of work for one firm is the record of the Purner family, of Marford-road, Clapton, E. Mr. Purner, the father, has been a carman for fifty-three years, his son for twenty-nine years. Five daughters, as maids and dress- "makers, make up the rest of the 244 years. Mr. Purner, 45, Marford- road Clapton, E.

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Ever since she was born, eighty- eight years ago, Mrs. Wallace, Westmacott-street, Camberwell, S.E. has lived in the house where her mother and father lived before her. She still refuses to have electricity or gas for. lighting, using only oil lamps and candles. Mr. Langley, 19, Westmacott street, Camberwell, S. E.

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the sixteen years Alderiuati has been a member of Saffron Valden (Essex) Council, ho, has never missed a council meeting or even a committee meeting. Now he is to be Saffron Walden's mayor for the, fifthTM auccessive year. Saffron Walden,

war.””

children to

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Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister for Air, inspecting one of the lat est aircraft turrets now in use in the Royal Air Force. The photo- graph was taken during the Minister's visit to the Tolworth Fac- tory of Parnall Aircraft Ltd., when he pointed out that thanks to the ability and inventiveness of Captain Frazer Nash we now led other countries in the production of automatic movable turrets. “NOT FLATTERED”

"They are the spinsters. That is why they have that funny view of the value of husbands.

Mrs. MacMillan called for

"It is a curious delusion that a tance to "this barbarism.”

"The spread of these pernicious markably valuable asset that if you 'husband is in all cases such a re- ideas is not limited to lands beyond have the misfortune to be without our own," she warned.

one you should have ten shillings per week.

ried the attack into the camp of her Mrs. A. Le Sueur, of London, car-

Own Sax.

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"There is a body of women," she' said, “[who have stated publicly that band they ought to be given some because they have nof secured a hus- compensation.

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Led by their own boy Bishop, G.. Jenkins, the 'boys of St. Mary of the Angels at: Addlestone, Surrey have just observed the ceremony of gathering the holly.

"I think that if I was the hus- band they had not got I should not feel very flattered."

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commented, got married as a means A large number of women, she

of livelihood,

sex

"It has always been a mystery to me, ," she said, "that the male should uphold the keeping of a wife. If I was a man I think I should lie in bed at night wondering why my wife had married me."

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TOO OLD AT 35

Men who stay

bachelors until

they are thirty-five are too old for marriage

according to a re-

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COURT DEFINITION

From London police courts: "He's telling lies," protested a defendant at Tottenham yester- day.

Magistrate, C. A. Dubery: We do not allow that language in

court.

Then he's telling untruths,” the defendant amended."

"That's better," Mr. Dubery commented.

Woman at Eating: I dare not go round to that house in a new coat. If I do, the moment I get inside the coat is torn off my back and the daughters take it in turns to see how they look in it standing, walking and dancing. . If the youngest one gets it on, she sees how she looks in it walking down the road.

Woman at Willesden: What my husband told me was one story, What he said in his sleep was an- other.

solution passed at a conference of HE'S A BRIGHT women in Cawnpore, India. The conference urged parents to YOUNG SPARK

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fuse their daughters' hands to men who have reached that age,

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* * THEY GO OUTSIDE TO BED

Bobby Graham, eleven, of Hilling- don. Middlesex, has one ambition— to become an electrician, like his father.

Mr. and Mrs. Dance, of The He has fitted a battery and small Lodge Heronden Hall, Tenterden, lamps to his roller-skates, so that Kent, have to go outside to go to bed.

he carn go errands for his mother Their house is an archway, one electric light inside a pram; and at in the dark in safety; fitted an half of the

he rooms being shut off the moment is trying to make his

from the

e rest, and each night they

Photo shows the Boy Bishop stand. have to leave their cony file to walk little sister's doll's eyes light up.

Ing the picturesque, porch of the

•hemte is the boys, enter with the helly.

outaide to the other part of the ~ house.--Sent by Mrs. Dance.

Sont "by D. L Longcroft, 89, Cranborne-way Hayes, Middlesex.

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