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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1941

BUTTERFLY FARM SLEEPS IN THE BLITZ

(By A London Correspondent)

I WENT ROUND a certain place somewhere in WIFE

England recently, where shrapnel had been whistl-

ing and glass had crashed and blast had buffeted;

but where production went on very quietly, appar- ently uninterrupted though the sirens wailed even while I was investigating.

It was a very quiet branch of production alto- gether, come to that. It was a butterfly farm, the London butterfly farm.

The butterfies folded their wings houses joined together, and all the and slept, as they, the hibernating fodder is grown 112 the back sort. will, the winter through. The garden. Poplar, oak, birch and caterpillars disguised themselves dock leaves are the best foods. as bits of bark on the trees, where; they enjoyed the illusion of lees dom --though if they only knew I there is a linen suck round them,

and the tree as they sleep.

University Order

WITH LOVER, CUT

BY SWORD

A sailor came home un- expectedly at midnight, found his wife with her lover, seized a sword from the wall and swung it in front of the couple.

He struck the wife on her left Bombs may fall and shrapnelarm. causing a slight cut, and ot may whistle and other farms n ay Dartford was accused of mali- complain of shortage of fodder and ciously wounding her. chicken food and cattle cake. But the butterfly farm goes on.

Let's hope that in spite of the worst Hitler can do. it will burst out into its usual colourfulness in

I shan't be surprised if every, the spring. now and then this winter I look back with il curtain wistfulness: at this picture of these small creatures sleeping, in spite of the bombs, right through to spring. 1941

I talked to the farmer proprietor, founder of the only butterfly farmi that exists, Mr. L. W. Newman, whose farmhouse is in Bexley.

He was engaged in filling an order for 6,000 chrysulises for Bir- mingham University. Quite cheap butterfly, cabbage whites, penny apiece.

other customers?

Who are the I asked the farmer.

Collectors, schools, researchers, landowners who'll buy an assorted batch to release and prettify their estate (unless they fly to the next- door estate); these were some he mentioned.

Official Interest Researchers making insecticides and sprays sometimes buy a stock to try out their wares with. At least once even a Government sent high official personages to the but terfly farm.

STRIP TEASE AS STRIKE

Greta Rozan, a Hollywood ac- what she tress, is carrying out calls a "strip-tease strike" on the

the

Universal pavement outside studio.

one garment

She is removing daily, and says she will continue elther until she is nude or until Universul grants her demands.

On the first day Greta, picketed without blouse. On the second day she discarded her skirt. Now she is picketing in a flimsy slip which, she says, will be removed in due course, when she will picket in knickers and a brassiere.

"It is the only possible protest that poor weak little ine can make," she tells the hundreds who watch her on parade.

He was discharged, the Court saying he had had great provoca- tion.

Alan Dudley Chapman, of Burn- ham Crescent, Dartford, merchant seaman, pleaded guilly to wound- ing Doris Irene Chapman, whom he found with Claude Cooper, of Ingram Road, Dartford. She had known Cooper for several months, Chapman told the police that when he switched on a light a man approached him from the bedroom in a fighting attitude.

"He struck at me," the state- ment continued, "and told me to get out. I said to him, 'Get out.' My wife said, 'You have got me at last."

His wife was cut when she got between Cooper and himself.

Sergeant Butcher believed Co- oper was single.

Mr. H. Goff (defending): This has happened while Chapman has been away serving his country.

The Sergeant: Yes, so I gather. his wife was Chapman said working at Vickers receiving good money, and he made her an al-

cared for

lowance.

Mr. Goff: You her ? still do.

What was Cooper's chief worry?-He wanted his clothes. I said, "I will put them "out the front window for you.".

Mr. Goff: The man who ought to be in the box is this skunk of a Her grievance is that her act | fellow who takes away the woman

"the prisoner loves.

It was the New Zealand Gov- ernment. It was concerned about was cut out from a new film. a plague of ragwort.

The idea was to import cater- pillars, ragwort eaters, 50,000 of them. They should breed by, the million, for New Zealand, has no ichneumon to kill them off. the plan was that millions caterpillars should eat the ragwort out of New Zealand.

So

of

"I told them it wouldn't do," said the butterfly farmer, "but they insisted. I pointed out that caterpillars would crop the rag- wort, but it would grow up again in their trail.

"We sent out the 50,000 cater- pillars-my largest order to date -but it worked out as

I said, The ragwort won."

PARIS---HEARTBREAK

CITY FOR WOMEN

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Here are glimpses of Paris for his men if a German opera under Nazi occupation. They favourite is put on. were told to Jose Shercliff, "Daily Herald" correspondent, in Lisbon, A friend of mine, a Jewess of by a woman who recently arriv-neutral nationality, applied for ed there from Paris.

her papers so that she could leave for South, America.

Paris is still gay Paris.

But only to the Germans. They are having a grand time in a city which is full of grim contrasts.

"I suppose you're running away because you're a Jewess?" sald the German passport official. We'll Well, I shouldn't worry. be there within the next four

2,000 From One How do you breed butterflies? "Well," says the farmer, "here's a comma butterfly

I caught In the spring. The comma butterfy Paris was once the best city in used to be found only in Here the world from the women's point" years." fordshire and the Wye Valley. Now of view, Now it, is the women

Kent," (A pretty Indy, orange and there who seem to suffer most

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black markings.)

"I caught, her in, the spring. 1 Queues of Frenchwomen and

BLOW TO

shall have bred two thousand but- | children wait outside food shops SPANISH

terfiles from her before the sea- for hours on end; but if a Ger- son's over.

"You see," saya. Mr. Newman, "in nature butterflies only suc- ceed in hatching about 1 per cent. or so of their eggs. In captivity, with luck, and if you escape disease, you can hatch out up to. 95 per cent.".

So much for the economics of the butterfly farm,

Record Price

For the collector, it catches or breeds sports and rarities, *£24, is the record price bald so far for a slugle, specimen. The late Lord Rothschild paid it.

For schools the farm breeds, and

sells ordinary specimens, in quan

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man offices cares he can walk straight in and be served at once.

Often he is given the last few ounces of butter or sugar, but the. French women dare not protest.

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NIGHT LIFE

Some of the oldest of Spanish customs concerning entertainment hours will receive a heavy blow People who a year ago could by a decision just adopted by the afford to entertain on a modest Spanish Government. scale now walt regularly at the For years the Spaniards, parti free soup, kitchens which have cularly. Madrid, people, have been been opened, because of the food, breakfasting, at lunchtime, lunch- shortage..

ing at teatime, supping, at bedtime, and, going to bed at dawn, The streets are a strange sight. Government is determined, to fight Ten thousand can licences were this state of affairs. stead of fladts of motor cats, one ara particularly addicted; is going recently withdrawn,, and now, in- Night life to which Spaniards

sees swarms of bicycles, Gua-run. Lo

drastically checked. and cinemas are buses, are operating, and even the Theatres. old open carriage has reappear, while Cafes, bars, and other public.

to close at of before, midnight.

Iplaces, as well, ns dancing rooms,

The

"There are only 18 British ed. varieties. says, the butterny farmer." "I've caught. 27, of them Theatres, cinemas, and the catinos and cabarets, will close in one day between here and the Opera, are doing well, but their no later than 1 a.m. Hotels and next, station."

patrons are not French. Soine-boarding houses will serve macals There's going to be no feeding times a German officer will take from 1 p.m. and from 8, pan., but roblem,, The farm consists of two as many as a thousand... tickets, not, after 2.30. and, §80. 104 ka