1939-05-16 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1939

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COCKTAIL-FOR MEN ONLY

A “cocktail” which doubles, even trebles, a man's endurance and intellectual powers, but fails to do the same for women, has been announced by Dr. G. R. Ray, of the Long Island College Hospital.

This new cocktail has glycine, an amino acid, as the essential ingredient. Fourteen of these amino acids are known to be essential to life. Gly- cine is the principal constituent of gelatine.

JUST LIKE 'SPRING HAT FASHIONS".-The ventilators for use in the interiors of railway car- riages look just like small size "boaters" when lined up in the paint shop at the Great Western Railway works at Swindon. This photo shows not something new in hat fashions, but the painting of the ventilators.

“TOO OLD AT TWENTY-ONE” CHARGE BY SHOP UNION

Exploitation of youth was alleg- ed by delegates at the annual con- ference of the National Union of Shop Assistants Warehousemen and Clerks at Glasgow.

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Mr. C. Cockburn declared that the cry "Too old at forty" had given way to "Too old at twenty-one."

Mr. A.R. Burgess, in his presi- dential address, stated that 29.8 per cent. of males and 40 per cent. of the females employed in distri- bution were under twenty-one, and that a large proportion of these were doomed to blind alley work and the industrial scrapheap.

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A LOT IN THEIR NAME

Two brothers, Mr. Samuel L. Germany and Mr. Richard M. Ger- many, of Boston, Massachusetts, have fled an application to change their name because they believe it is a "liability and embarrasment,” They want to be called “Germainè,” says Reuter, -

More than 100 men and a dozen women were tested before and after taking gelatine on a machine which measured the amount of electricity the they could generate. One of best subjects, whose average was ninety watts before taking the gela- tine, increased his output to watts in forty-nine days. When he stopped taking the glycine cocktail his output dropped.

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Only three women showed any increase in energy output.

Ek ***** HE CONVERTED GANDHI

Mr. Henry S. Salt, who converted Gandhi to vegetarianism, has died at Brighton. He was

eighty-seven.

He was the founder and for thirty years the honorary secretary of the Humanitarian League, the objects of which were to abolish blood reform sports, and vivisection, to prisons and popularise humane diet.

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ARABS GET THE 'QUAKES

FULL SPEED AHEAD WITH KHAKI-Following the announce- ment of Conscription, this picture was taken at a Bethnal Green fac- tory and shows the making of military caps.

MOTORISTS IN COURT

From London police courts: Motorist at Highgate:

When

you drive as carefully as I do you don't need a hand brake!

Motorist at Stratford: I own five cars, but when trade is slack I only drive one at a time.

The Motorist at Wood Green: constable and I had similar men- talities. He said he did not like me either.

Witness at Golders Green: After explaining the working parts of the car he had to hire a lorry to tow it away.

MIDLAND CITY GRAZES

20,000 SHEEP

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Arabs living near Mostaganem, Algeria, did not have one dull mo-

The people of Birmingham ment during the first ten days of April. Scientists have reported though few of them know it-own in 20,000 sheep. Welsh shepherds tend there were thirty earthquakes that region during the period-an these flocks amid the wild hilla average of three a day.

SURPLUS FOR POOR

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Plans to distribute surplus food- stuffs among families with low in- comes are to be tried soon nounced Mr.. Wallace, United States Secretary of Agriculture, yesterday. Food stamps will be used, and Rochester, in New York State, has been chosen for the first experiment.

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around Brecknock, Cardigan and Montgomery, seventy-five from Birmingham.

Here lies watershed, fifteen miles long and eight miles wide, owned by the Corporation. It provides Bir- mingham's million inhabitants with water

"In this area," says the City of Birmingham Handbook for 1989, "there is a population of about 100. Some years ago a cen- sus revealed that there were about 60,000 sheep in the watershed, about a third of which number be- long to the Corporation. They were distributed among the tenants to be card for."

800-YEAR-OLD GIFT

FROM SIAMESE TWINS

The poor of Biddenden, `Kent have just received two four pound loaves of bread and one pound of cheese-their legacy from Siamese twins who lived early in the twelfth century..

The custom has been kept alive for more than 800 years.

Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst were the twins. They were born: în Biddenden joined at the hips, and lived in the village for thirty-four years.

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One of them died, and the other, though advised to have an opera- tion to part her from her sister, refused, saying, "as we together, we will also go together." Rent from a plot of land left by The the twins-now known a8 Bread and Cheese Land”—buys for the charity."

PRESENTED FROM COURT

From Highgate Police Court:

Woman: I was just looking at her when she said, "Who are you staring at?" I said, ; "I don't know what it is." Then, för some unknown reason, she hit me...

Cyclist witness: I went up to the woman driver and said, "Hi, what's the game?" She said, Driving is no game; any woman will tell you that.”

Counsel: There is a certain amount of confusion in this case, because the defendant was imper- sonated by his son and told every- one that he was his brother.

BUTE DOWRY BRIDE

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1939 Bute Dowry bride is Miss Beatrice Silvia Irene Lavis, of Canton, Cardiff; She will receive £80 in cash-thanks to the late Marquis of Bute, Forty-two years ago he placed £1,000 with Cardift Corporation and directed that the annual interest should be given to the Cardiff girl whose a marriage would otherwise be held up for Lack of money.

健診

SPEED KNIGHTS OF TWO ROADS MEET-A mechanic test- loat *. racing car along a lonely, stretch, of road at Standon dge Staff, often has the opportunity to accept 'a challenge in a Kupeed with the L.M.S. xprésson thundering along the iron de him. Photo shows racing car and train in a” duél at. Bridge, Stafti.

SOLDIERS MAY JOIN UNIONS

Soldiers who wish to join or re- main in trade unions are free to do so, states Mr. Hore-Belisha; the War

Geoffrey Minister, Mr.

Shakespeare, Financial Secretary

to the Admiralty, says that naval ratings may do the same.

MY HAT!

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A 'tin-hat' which, it is claimed, offers better protection than other has been invented by J.-F.. Gilding, of Redfern, South Wales. While wearing own steel helmet, Gilding allowed a 14st, 6ft..inan toi pound his hat with a 51b, axe. But, says Bri tish United Press, Mr. Gilding auf fered no ill-effecta.