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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1939

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THE YOUNG IDEA-Only six years old, little Beryl Bailey, of New Southgate, shows great pro- mise as an ice skater, She will be seen in action at the jurenile skat- ing competitions at the Empire Pool, Wembley during a charity gala. Leaping Beryl-only six years old is already a grand little skater.

AFTER ALL THAT HE ISN'T

WELSH

Mr. S. Welsh, of Folkestone, tries to avoid signing his name in full. And no wonder. It is Samuel Cecil Montague Upton Wales and he isn't Welsh, he's Irish..

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WIVES HOWL DOWN 2 MEN VISITORS

Two young members of a bachelors' clùb tra- velled from Plymouth to be guests at a meeting of the Married Women's Association in London.

But at night when the shy young men faced an audience of fifty at a house in Hampstead they were laughed down, called to order when they attempt- ed to speak.

They left the party after ad- dressing about 100 nervous words between them on "Bachelordom."

For an hour the two bachelors, twenty-nine-year-old property deal er Cyril Wood, founder of the Ply- mouth Bachelors' Club, and Ronald- Stuart, 4 twenty-three-year-old chemist and a member of the com- mittee of the club, sat hemmed in by mothers and wives of all ages.

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FIFTY-FIFTY BASIS FOR

MARRIAGE

They listened to a member of the feminist group, Miss Dorothy Evans, speak "on the economic position of the married woman.'

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GUARD FOR 'WILD' DARTS

A game of darts is in progress in a crowded public bar. A dart hits a wire, bounces back and en- ters a customer's eye. Whom will the customer sue for compensa- tion?

This is a question públicans have been asking in Weston-super- Mare, where there are three darts leagues and hundreds of unattach- ed fans.

The answer is almost unanim- ous the licensec.

As a precaution, most darts boards in Weston are being equip- ped with wide side shades to in- tercept erratic darts.

CABINET WAVELENGTH

Men at work on huge derricks on the site of the new Post Office building in Queen Victoria Street amaze onlookers by the nonchalant way they perform gymnastic-like feats as they work almost on a level with the dome of St. Paul's in the background. Photo shows a workman climbing toʻhis mate per- ched comfortably on the top of the derrick almost on a level with the cross surmounting the dome of St. Paul's.

SPLITTING THE SIXPENCE

They heard Miss Evans put for- ward further plans for the Asso- ciation's attempt to get a Bill through Parliament whereby wives and husbands, disappointed with

Miss Evans asked: "Who is it, when the bed-rock expenses of the financial working of their mar- Mr. Chamberlain's predominance keeping the home have been paid, Welsh ried life, could each go before a in his Cabinet has caused an Ox- who spends that little bit ever?

court for a magistrate's ruling on ford professor, who is an opponent "It is the man, of course. Some what would be a fair sum for the of his policy, to complain that the say that there is nothing left over, wife to receive from her husband's term National Government is a You show me the man who can't" income.

misnomer. He says that it ought find some money to buy cigarettes, to be changed to the Midland Re- a glass of beer now and again and gional Government.

a daily paper.

Six cormorants are making their home on a buoy in the Medway, off Rochester Bridge. Despite the in-

Arguing that the best form of dustrial conditions around them, marriage economically would be on they find plenty of food and are fifty-fifty

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basis, Miss Evans thriving.

said: "Running a home is a trade. "I don't want wives to be offend-

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ON DOG

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Mrs. Campling, of Wellesley- ed because I say this. For to have road, Wanstead, bought some a trade is, I think, something to be MARY'S LAMB' HAS NOTHING oranges, took them home. · On proud of, and housekeeping should opening the bag she found that two certainly be regarded as a valuable of the oranges were joined together occupation. with a piece of shrapnel embedded in them. At the shop next day she was told that the fruit had come from Spain..

WILL NOT PAY-LEVIES

"I don't hold with people who Jock, a liver and white spaniel, say 'It is in a woman's nature to is a good example to pupils at the look after her home.'

Junior Council School, Sandwich, Kent.

"It isn't. If we call looking after a home a trade then it ranks as the Every day he goes to school. lowest paid occupation ever. The Not once has he played truant. wife gets no old age pension, no

His presence gives the school a Milk producer-retailers all over sickness benefits, and can be dis-

-! special attraction for the children. the country, said to number more missed at a month's notice.

"And it is up to us to work to They love him, and he is devoted than 10,000, are to defy the milk Marketing Board and refuse to fill ensure at least the minimum pro- to them.

Jock belongs to the headmistress, up the board's monthly returns and tection for those who are engaged daily milk records or to pay levies. In this valuable occupation of look- Mrs. Kate Burman, whom he fol-

This decision was made at the ing after the home.”

lows almost everywhere. annual meeting of the National Federation of Milk Producer- Retailers in Birmingham.

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Mr. Justice Cassels, at Glamor- gan Assizes passed sentence of seven years- penal servitude Timothy Dacey, a Cardiff cycle dealer, who was found guilty of possessing explosives.

PLAGUE OF MICE INVADES

VILLAGE

Villagers at Newton, near Porth- 'cawl, are being plagued, by field- mice. They have made a home in St. John's (twelfth century) church- yard, and have even eater the crocus bulbs over the graves..

Only local cats and owls are happy.

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THE QUEEN NAMES HOSPITAL

The Queen gave her own name to Birmingham's new $1,000,000 ́ Hös- pital Centre when she visited it. with, the King.

The 2nd Batt, Grenadier Guards at Wellington Barracks demon- strated the new fiékl drill for rifle battalions, This is the drill which Photo shows the Guards In was demonstrated before the King.

formation instead of “fours" —part of the

ew drill.

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"Our Bill, which we hope to get through Parliament, is going to give either party, husband or wife, the right to go to court if they do not think their family, finances are fair.

"It is not going to be a question of wages for wives. It is going to be a fifty-fifty management, a part- nership.

"It is going to give the wives the right to claim to know what their husbands earn. And, if husband has sixpence in his pocket, the right to say that it can always be split two ways."

During debating time Mr. Wood tried several times to put the bachelors' point of view.

Each time he rose there were howls of laughter.

But neither of the young bache. fors was impressed.

LIFE AMBITION SHATTERED

BY TWO DAYS' ILLNESS

Harry Hall, of Alexandra-road, Canton, Cardiff has had a lifetime. ambition thwarted by two days. From the time he atarted work with the Great Western Railway forty- seven years ago, he never missed a day's work until just before, his retirement. Then he had influenza and his ambition to complete his career without absence shattered.

AMERICA TO MOVE

America's Draughts Association proposes sending a team of eight men of eight men to compete in in-- ternational matches with Great Britain in London and Glasgow in 1941, Eight (Including national champion A. W. Long, of Toledo) have already been selected.