"SAY NINETY-NINE!" "NEÌN... NEIN”.
Salute to
HR
born
TOW fortunate not to
have been Grandmamma-nor even Mother! Poor
dears, they did miss a lot
of youthful fun and oppor- tunity!
It's Miss Britain of 1950
speaking, as she makes her debut into the atomic era, determined to get the best out of life.
in
ARMY MEDICAL
THE CHINA. MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1950.
NORTH ATLANTIC TREA
WESTERN DEFENCE RECRUITING OFFICE
World Copyright. By arrangement with Dolly Herald
Britain's
uniform
They can be among the best paid and the most travelled of their sex cflcer they will take over 27 is the
10s, at the weekly pay parade, Food, a root over their heads, uniform, and travelling conces sions when on leave, are all free.
Grandmamma was just left to sigh enviously as her brothers went off to see the world; mother's chances for seeing how the other half of the world lives were strictly limited. But today's daughters
have their photographs taken they
Git on
camels before the ancient Sphinx in Egypt, they can climb the Black Mountains is
can
Force.
women
t:
High rents for bed-sitting rooms, increasing fares rising food costs make
and
a big hole in the pay packet of the business or professional woman in Civvy Street.
The English week-ond is famous, word has even beon Incorporated foreign languages. This wook, correspondents report how the habit has been adopted in other countries in
Tho
into
a fow
SPOTLIGHT ON THE WEEK-END
FROM RODNEY CAMPBELL in South Africa are played by
NEW YORK
amateurs, whose only free time is the week-end, so there is no mid-week sport.
Sunday, in
TEW York's week-end fact, has become much a popular terinis, bowis and golf that the Church is claiming that sport la ruining South Africa's Sunday.
begins at 4 for Rugby,
SE
Friday, and lasts un- til Monday morning. By early on Friday evening On the other hand, in the every main road, bridge, amaller towns and in the and tunnel is blocked by villages, dontrolled to a large traffe moving, almost im extent by the strict churches of the Afrikaans-speaking people, perceptibly, at five m.p.h.
Sundays are devoted to worship and visiting. So strict is this observance that in the Free old Republican law State an stil prevents any train starting a journey from the Free State on a Sunday.
The stations are crowded, too, so that the fastest way out of the city (if you can afford it) 1 by hellcoptor.
Even in winter, limousines, "old crocks", smart little sport cars, and motor cycles head for the country. At present every ane is driving to the ski slope, In summer the attractions are the lakes, rivers, golf courses, niki beaches,
There are no Sunday cinemas or public-houses in South Africa, but there are Sunday concerta in Johnnesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Twelve hour a day commercial radio programmes are popular.
MILAN
The reason for this all-the- year-round weekly exodus is FROM K. SCOTT WATSON. that New York is such a hectic, dirty city that Ave days spent working in it are quite enough for anyone,
the
FROM HENRY THODY.
PARIS
THE
THE Italians are now rapidly breaking with tradition, and
a result, New Yorkers are most weekend-minded going away for the week-ends, people in America.
Their average weekly holiday is from mid-day Saturday until Monday morning, although many office workers, unprotected by a THE average Frenchman still union, rarely start their week- prefers to spend his week-end before eight o'clock on a end at home. Hia entertainment Saturday evening. he finds in the local enfes, or, more simply, in the company of his family
Mussolini believed in keeping
and relatives over the masses occupied at week- the dinner table. On Sunday ends, and a nation-wide he may watch a football game. ganisation, "Dopolavorro",
or-
or
meetings, and
A secretary earning £7 10s. a week in a London offler, and tion are week-ends away from concerts, sports
Only with the youngor genera- "After Work," offered cinemas, fending for herself in one-home becoming more balance when she has housed, northern towns have plenty of
popular. opera at reduced prices. roomed fallet, has very
little Paris and the industrial
Today, with democratic trap- Women's Royal Air- fed, and clothed herself.
near-by attractions and the rall pings, this organisation is still Her
counterparts in the ways
run many cheap cx- offering similar facilities, and Services, Girls with ability and initia- women's
however,cursions.
every insured worker has the £7 10s. a tive can put on the grey-blue could receive over
amusements at cut uniform of the W.R.A.F. and week, in addition to free ac In summer there
are the right to food, uniform, forests of service aircraft, pack parachutes, commodation,
Fontainebleau and prices and cheap trips to the and serve their country on an and free travelling facilities on Complegne and the Channel lakes or seaside. equal footing with men.
Icave,
beaches, including Deauville. At the Casino, in the afternoon,
still spend their you can try your luck for shill week-ends at home preparing ing stakes at tables where kings their football pool forecasts for and Alm stars gamble for for the Sunday matches, túnes at night,
talning visitors and relations.
They can enlist between the ages of 17 and 36, must be of British nationality, and if they are married they must not children younger
any
than 15 years.
Retirement
THE of chance
free
Every encouragement Is given to those who wish to further their education, so that if their eyes are fixed on to the topmost branches of ambition's tree, then there is the target of
THE girl in uniform has a minimum of £1,103 a year for have BS
a brigadier.
foreign Recruiting is going well, and When joining they must be travel and a pension at the end of 22 years service which will to fly during duty, be a welcome addition to her the women coldiers' new The W.R.A.D. was founded in walking-out dress is issued. April, 1018.
and, like the State retirement pension of 263.
W.RA.C. This is a bol..
and a week. All through her ser- vice she can enjoy a full social tho W.R.N.S..
and cultural life without became a per-
dearth of companions. manent part of
More in 1949.
of Germany, pick fresh pine- why to be further stimulated prepared
of
apples in Malayon gardens, and bargain in the bazaars Hongkong-without a penny's cost to themselves.
Simply by Joining one of the Women's Armed Forces they can become among the most widely travelled women,
In the history of Britain's Navy, Army, and Air Force, the women's sections Are very, very young.
tle green serge Jacket and skirt with pale shirt green blouse, and has been designed
-by-
Any
by Norman Hartneli, who makes the Queen's clothes.
Aage Thaarup, the Queen's year for an Air milliner, has designed for them After 22 a becoming peaked cap, which are pensions.
Armed Forces BETTY
than likely she will mary. It she does, and has Rates of pay completed ten years' service, man ROSAMOND % a week dowry.
Tange from her gratuity will be a useful
for
recruit
What is more, the character to £1,103 a training and rich experiences of Commandant. her Service life should makc years' service there her an excellent, understanding
wife.
Oldest of these juveniles i the Women's Royal Army Corps, will be provided with a green Since the rates of pay, for the Obviously Service life must which started life during the beret as an alternative. For women's Services were raised make women tough. But it is 1914-1918 war as the Women's duty the girls will wear khaki at the same time as those for the toughness of common sense. Army Auxiliary Corps,
battle-blouses and skirts.
the men's Services, recruiting Any woman, whether ter edu Thus, for the first time since young women with a de- has been considerably increased. ention ended at 15 or culminat-
For the Amazons of Greek legend sire to nurse, and yet who are Today the women's branches ed in a university degree, gains showed what women warriors not State Registered nurses, of the Armed Forces offer some a truer appreciation of life's could do, women put on uni- there are opportunities in Queen of the best-paid Jobs for women, values from a spell in uniform. form and went to war.
Alexandra's Royal Army Nur- with opportunities for advance But never is her essential But these modern Amazona sing Corps.
ment.
femininity threatened. were of gentler strain. Though They can train as nursing they served in France when orderlies, radiographers, mas- the Germans almost broke the
chiropodists, seuses,
clerks, Allled line in 1918, their duties
storewomen, dental operating were chiefly of a domestic room assistants and dental
nature.
Renamed
And
it's true- Yes, it's women DO gossip more
than men
For the country-minded, camps and youth hostels are becoming more popular.
Thousands
or enter-
Italian girls are rarely allowed out alone, and mixed hiking is unknown, It is the young Many workers have Saturday people, however, who are now and Sunday free, but others breaking with the "stay at home" especially clarks-take
Sunday tradition.
Ексту week-end and Monday off, so that most shops are closed on Sundays and hundreds of parties stream out many of them on Mondays well.
AS
FROM ALEX HAMMOND. DURBAN
to the lakes or the ski-runs on the tiny popular motorscODÍETS.
For the more energetic the Government offens 48 hour mountain excursions with free JAST distances and slow trains aki-ing instruction.
hamper week-end travel In South Africa, As a result most South Africans keep very much within the bounds of their home
towns.
FROM ANTHONY BARRETT. SANTIAGO DE CHILE
As most worker's there is usually own cars seeing trip on
a short sight- MOST South Americans afternoon or Sunday.
the Saturday MS
stopped regarding the week- ead as a purely British Institu- The main week-end attraction tion some time ago.
is sport. All the major sports
THE
CHAPMAN
PINCHER
COLUMN
As roads and railways prove, more and more of the middle classes
the follow example of the gente bien, and take themselves off to the cca, mountains, and lakes.
im-
Distances, however are so onormous, and hotel facilities so limited, that normally one does not stray too far.
will be opportunities, also, of training to bo State Registered nurses. Rates of pay AJONE the less they proved are the same as those paid to
their worth, and when war
the W.R.A.C. Like the members of have unhappily broke out again in the W.R.A.C., they will
the chance of seeing foreign
Some of the larger cities have 1999 the Army lost no time in calling upon women for full lands peoples.
gibberish talked by Army con-residential country clubs with- A1 read:
1y + batch of time service with H.M. Forces,
everything scripts. When decipherable this in reach, offering Q.A.R.A.N.C. sisters have left
When two the peak period of the warmes At
women really gossip D°
women who are most often referred to: 1. "Civvy from polo to ping-pong. For the 200,000 women were serving in for nursing in Korea.
more than men, or is already friends get Into a Street." 2. The last week-end unmonted younger people, the Also on overseas service are
3. The next what
week-end camping and hostel movements then
compartment the odds are they leave. called the
are developing, Auxiliary
Service members of the Women's Royal, this just another masculine will talk for 70 percent of the leave). Territorial (A.T.S.). This time they were Naval Service (WR.N.S.)the slur kept going to make journey. The maximum time In my view there should be
One type of week-end at once not only in the kitchens but Navy's "better half," known as females feel inferior?
two friendly women can en- No-Talking compartments on censational and utterly dreary Wrens. the also were defending their very
More than
After a six months' snoop on dure silence seems to be four every train so that busy men is that enjoyed by many a peon 100,000 Women own homes
can escape the gossips. Until who draws his waxes on Satyr- They helped to
served in the W.R.N.S. during 500 men and women kept in minutes. man the World War II, and in 1949 the small cubicles for an hour at a
When two men who have
these are introduced the tricksday and drinks remorselessly searchlights that caught the
time with nothing to do, I can started a platform conversation I learned during my research until they are spent. Indeed, it zooming German bombers In Service became established as a
the "Bret authoritative get into a carriage the chances should help fellow-sufferers:- is this lost week-end” which of the their beams; they served on the permanent part
Royal give
answer to this question:
are only one in Ave that they If you can bear it, always gave birth to. San Limes (Saint guns that blew into a thousand Navy.
At every age and at every will continue it for longer than travel in a non-smoker, This Monday) sometimes regarded pieces the flying bombs that
eliminates the danger of social level the average female ten minutes.
thejas a feast day because 50 proffered cigarette which, in people report for work! are spite of its price, still ореля
many dreary discussions.
came clattering merrily over the Range of jobs
tongue is far more eastly trig-
train
women If two
who
+
Channel from Frante. They
gered into action than the male. strangers sit together on a were wireless operators, radio
FOR them is provided an ex- And once started it ways faster, journey lasting longer than mochanics, and lorry drivers, citing range of jobs from
In fitting recognition of the cooking in galleys to plotting longer, av to less purpose.
half an hour there за того contribution to the defence of the tracks of ships and servicing I base theso conclusions on than oven chance they will start
careful observations made on Britain, the A.T.S., therefore, naval aircraft.
talking within teri minutes, and in it. The infant may be inert. Avold a carriage with a baby was made part of the British Though they áre normally fellow-passengers during more
keep the conversation going all but some woman is sure to prod Regular Army in 1940 and re- horowomen,
of their than
the way. named the Women's Royal Army numbers do go to sea, At the Journeys between my home and
it into activity as a prelude to a My notes record only one case detalled description of her own Сегра
end of the
Inst war 30 Wrens the office.
In which two men strangers children. Today the WRAC, has a shared in the Royal Navy's
started a conversation Insting teng list of interesting jobs for £4,000,000, prize money; the women who may: Joln between prinsipr qualification for
principal
some
ง
150
one-hour
where two women
has
which
long
win-
Avoid any compartment I always hope to get through more than five minutes.
are silling the ages of 1734 ûnd 36. Married share being
180
some stiff. scientific reading Q Married couples are the aide by side. Women facing cach days' afloat. women may enlist too provided British women, who also have during these trips. But in ave ⚫ safest companions in trains, other cannot talk, for quito toj
AVITY to serve any British parents, and who are journeys out of they are world.
six One couple in every three is long because leaning forward where in the
-between the ages of 18 and 27, serious study in provented by silent throughout the journey. giyes them backacht.
The rest usually keep their co-inally, when all else Should a girl marry after her can put on the becoming navy somebody's small-talk. onlistment and the marriage blue
of the sergo uniform
So after car-plugs proved in- versation down to essentials. faller hero is a trick rate is high-then sho may W.R.N.S.
They can be married effective. I decided to turn my
The commonest topics of car="aunietimes
works on Claim hot
hor, release.
a social cz- ringe cross-mik among women journeys. Silly shut the or single, and must be willing train travels into All these women soldiers are to go wherever their services poriment by analysing the back- were: 1. The reasons for the dows and ventilators. The
and join in the first are needed.
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800 for three or four years,
noting the topica discussed, ne a breathless commentary op cotic. Conversation flags and after which they may sign on and all found for, socruibe to hly records show that 05 per how
missed they nearly
the oren the Apislest eventually nod further
terms of murvice, in 2000 a year for a superlaten cont of the poles which infor train, D. Houdework
40:23 TORID.
dent.
rupted work was ziada by neighbour. quarters Should they stryp the Royal women, though:“far more men Audong the tow cay than on the Hiter paid to mem Navy for 32 years then they are travel by the tintos I. vino,
ALL
for
Pay starts at 20s. 95. a week Hedund chatter, timing it, and Journeyusually opgalog with resulting: fug nota like a nati
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