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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 17, 1989.

£4-A-WEEK GIRLS KNOW SECRETS OF EVERY MILLIONAIRE'S INCOME

Thirty girls, aged nineteen up-marks for Latin and Greek, and all wards, know most of the money have to be proficient in English and secrets of Britain's millionaires. ordinary arithmetic. Some choose They hold confidential posts in the physics and chemistry, Surtax Branch of the Special Com- missioners of Income Tax at Turn- stile House, W.C.

Although the smallest incomes they deal with are more than £2,000 a year, none of the girls earns more than #420 a year and most earn £200 or less.

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TAX-GATHERERS It has already been discovered that

women make good tax-gat- herers. They are said to be more tenacious than men, more suspic- ious of possible tax dodges and they have a keener appetite for extract- ing, the last shilling.

They all rank as “executive offi- But women civil servant organisa- cers."

tions prefer to be modest about Their coming to the Special Com-their members' qualities. missioners' office is a fairly recent move and the latest triumph for the army of women civil servants, who now number 105,000.

AGAINST MEN

Miss Morris, Secertary of the National Association of Women Civil Servants, said to a "Sunday Express" representative, "We don't claim that women are better in these jobs than men. We claim they are as good.

The "surtax" girls have won their appointments in competition with men in the annual examina- "But because they are compara- tion for executive posts, one of the tive newcomers to the Civil Ser- high-grade Civil Service examina-vice, women always have to do their tions. They generally excel in work a little better than men in or elementary mathematics, but nearly der to convince their bosses that always fight shy of higher mathe-they are as good as men." matics.

Elementary mathematics, how- ever, includes pure and co-ordinate geometry, differentiation from de- finition, the gradient and area of a graph, graphs of trigonometric ious of possible tax dodges and they functions, composition and resolu- tion of velocities and accelerations in one plane and the conservation of linear momentum.

Many of the girls gain high

LAST STRONGHOLD

So confident are women. civil servants of their powers-the road is now open to them for £2,400 a year jobs as Permanent in Under- Secretaries of State; one woman in the Treasury already earns about £1,500,-that they are making an assault on the last Civil Service stronghold for men only.

All administrative and executive posts in the Defence Ministeries are still barred to women.

SHE FOUND ROMANCE Meanwhile, the demand for civil

IN STAMPS

servants, chiefly because of the re- armament programme, swells. Last year 200 executive posts were ad- MADAME WODOWOSOWvertised as vacant. By the time the (FROM BELGIUM), WHOSE RO-examination was completed it was MANCE STARTED OVER A found necessary to place 347 of the STAMP, HELPED HER HUSBAND candidates. RECENTLY TO SELL 1,500,000 OF

THEM.

For he was one of the 109 dealers CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

from all over the world who went to the annual Stamp Bourse in the Holborn Restaurant, W.C., to sell among themselves and swop the latest market gossip and clients'

names.

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LESSON SERMON

SUBJECT-Is The Universe, Including

Mans Evolved by Atomic Force? in all Christian Science churches to- The subject of the Lesson Sermon

morrow 18th June will be "Is the Universe, including Man, evolved by Atomic Força?”

there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him." |(1. Cor. 8:6),

The Golden Text will be:-"To us

M. Wodowosow met his wife six- teen years ago when she came to buy a stamp in his shop. But if you ask him if she knows as much about them as he does he will you:

"Oh, no! But she knows a great Among others the following cita- tions will be read from the Bible;-- deal for a woman.”

"For 10, He that formeth the moun- and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is His name.. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the and in the earth is thine; thine is the Jesty: for all that is in the heaven

kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalt- ed as head above all. Now, there fore, our God, we thank thee, and (Amos praise thy glorious name.” 4:13; 1, Chron. 29 11, 13).

He is proud of his 1,500,000tains, stamps. "Never before has one man shown so many in the bourse, and it is my first year here too.

"I hope to sell every one of them. I have six regular customers, and between them I think they will buy them all. My wife makes them up into packets of 2;500.”

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Many dealers bring wives and children with them to see London while they sell stamps. But Grace Jorjorian (“Just call me Grace") has come from New York to buy, After two weeks in England she has bought $400 worth.

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The following citations will also be read from the Christian Science Text- book "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "The notion of a material universe is utterly opposed to the theory of man. as evolved from Mind, Such, fundamen, tal errors send falsity into all human doctrines: (and conclusions, and do not accord infinity, to Daity, For right asoning there should be but one fact before, the the kamelya spiritual existence.

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