1939-03-25 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1989

MOST AMAZING FAMILY

FIRST A GIRL, AND THEN

A BOY, FOR A HUNDRED WIFE MADE RULES,

YEARS

Most amazing family anywhere around Lon-

don lives at Carshalton, Surrey.

HE BROKE THEM, DIVORCED

Carl Berg, forty, of Chicago, broke all his wife's deportment

cruelty. The rules were:

Not to leave home without per mission;

For over 100 years every girl in the Whitfield rules, and she divorced him for family, descended from the famous preacher, George Whitefield, of Whitefield's Tabernacle, has been born on a Thursday, and every boy on a Friday.

What is more, no member of the family has died or been taken seriously ill except in November or February...

RECORDS ARE IN THE BIBLE

I went in search of the wonder ful Whitfields to see for myself proof of these strange records, writes a correspondent.

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Not to be gone more than half an hour, even with her consent; Not to use his car unless she accompanied him;'

Visit his mother only with wife's permission;

Conduct his business only from the garage:

Teach his wife book-keeping; and give up control of his bank account.

But he also broke her nose. That. was the cruelty.

Doctors cannot explain these One set were boys, born on a phenomena, nor can the Whitfields | Friday; another were girls, arriv- themselves.

ing like good Whitfields on Thursday; and the third, a girl and a boy, kept up the record by entering this world on a Thursday Victoria. Evryone was conscious night and Friday morning respec-of the solemnity of the occasion tively. I found the oldest member of

QUERY TO A QUEEN. with the exception of eight-year- the family, silver-haired Mrs. Then I was introduced to the

Ada Whitfleld (now Mrs. Whitfield, as lively at 86 as most youngest member of the family,

Swayne). women are at 40 she thinks greatgrandson Leon Michael, who nothing of a five-mile walk so gurgled at me as though serenely looks like reaching the conscious of having upheld the of her mother, (99) or her family record by arriving two grandmother (100), unless she months ago on a Friday, in de- sets up a new longevity record | fiance of the doctor, who pro- herself.

phesied 'his arrival for the follow- ing Sunday.

that she

age

Half an hour with members of the Whitfield-family made me feel Just to keep up the family that I wouldn't put it past her for reputation for records. Uncle this or any record. (Sorry, Grand- George Whitfield (Mrs. Whitfield's mother Whitfield talks so racily, brother-in-law) WBS Britain's and the habit is catching).

champion bricklayer, and his brother, Mrs. Whitfield's late hus- band, for some time a drum-major in the Army, was a cricketer, who frequently bowled to Dr. W. G.

She reached down the family Bible, and there, sure enough, were entries of births, first a girl (Thursday), then a boy (Friday), for a century. Eliza, Ada, Laura, Grace.. Vera, Mabel, grandmother, mother, AB for Thursday-born . Mrs. daughter, granddaughter all Swayne, daughter of Mrs. Whit- Thursday arrivals; Banjamin, field, grandmother of Leon Michael George, Jack, Frank and the rest and mother of a quiverful of

THE PARABLE OF THE "GOOD SPORT"

The "Good Samaritan" becomes the "Good Sport," and "Wise Vir- gins" become "Smart Girls" in a startling versions of the Gospels which has just been completed by Dr. William Louis Bailey, a socio- logist of the Northwestern Univer- alty: at Evanston, Illinios.

For Dr. Bailey has revised the language of the Bible for the 'bene- fit of the man-in-the-street of to- day. He explained that he sought to recapture the "mundane spirit” which he believes characterised the earller writings of. Christ's fol- lowers.

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So, in the new version of the Gospels which he has worked upon for thirty years and will soon see published, Dr. Bailey has Biblical

of "laying down a treasure," and characters "making a`pile" instead

they may say "snap out of it" rat- her than "arise." ·

The Gospels, he contends, were originally fragmentary bits of writ- During an awe-inspiring pause ing containing a wide variety of he stood eagerly on tip-toe, and human interest stories and detail piped shrilly to Her Majesty, omitted in translations from all "Don't you think I've grown.” earlier versions.

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further back than that," she said

"but we haven't got the proofs...

she is a chip of the old block, live-

ly and racy. Even as a small girl "My youngest daughter, Minnie, she had the distinction of "speak- who died in Canada, was the onlying-up” to a Queen.

woman ever to have three sets of It happened, when her father twins in succession,” she added. was being presented to Queen

More And More Brides Keep Marriages Secret

Secret marriages are on the in- the money, but who are determined crease. In grandmother's day brides to have a career as well as a hus- band, and if the marriage is likely who wed in secret wore their wed-

to jeopardise the career then it ding rings on chains round their has to remain a secret. necks. Modern brides are doing the same--but for different reasons.

To-day the fear of losing their job, the determination - to go on having a "good time" after mar riage, and a dislike of notoriety were given as the three main rea- sons when a reporter made inquiries about these secret weddings writes a reporter.

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FOR YEARS There are scores of marriages every year which remain unknown, sometimes for years:

A large proportion of these "sec- ret brides are school teachers, civil servants, and others who are employed in jobs they would have to give up were it known they were married.

The wedding usually takes place during the summer holidays after which the bride returns to her job under her maiden name. --

There is another group of “sec- ret brides those who do not need

Miss Pierotti, assistant secretary of the National Union of Women Teachers, discussing such marri- ages, said she thought the women were doing the only reasonable thing that could be done, since they were not given the choice of living a balanced life.

ALL TOGETHER

"I sometimes think it would be a good thing if we could get a whole lot of women teachers to marry în secret; then, after four or fivej years, have them all suddenly reveal - their marriages at the same time proving to the authorities how their work had not been affected in the least,” added Miss Pierotti.

Mr. Walter Grimaldi, the Superin- tendent Registrar for Tottenham, says? "The trouble is that boys and girls to-day "want too high standard of living when they first get married. They are not con tent to build up a home gradually," but want everything at the start.

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