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ARIANNA, one of seven daugh- ters, was recently married to Major Gilbert. Monckton, son of Sir Walter Monckton, K.C.

I

have been asked to tell how I brought up sevens daugh- ters, not forgetting one son,

never

My large family was planned in advanco, They are Monica, aged six, Mary, 12, Veronios, 19, Elizabeth,

17, Martanus 21, Margaret, 24, Aune, 27, and my con, Paul, who is 20.

No easy life

EARLY nations of an easy life

a naval officer's wife were swept away by a growing maternal instinct

backed

HON. MRS.

ROBERT BOWER

be

All

of them have had the experience of travelling in the guard's van, one of them at the age of four.

At one time I had over 100 pairs of children's shoes in the house and allll had to buy more.

to Sales bargains had pursued. In those prewar days I could buy a £2 pair of shoes to cook, at a sales price of 105., a £5 coat for £1, and cheaper still were remnants which I bought in quantities.

One of my best bargains was some white furnishing satin which I made into col pillow- slips which have been

one 13 years, and cost only shilling each,

Pandering to

childish

in use

food fads and fancies was impossibic,

All my daughters are taught darn and knit. BOW,

02 Monies could sew buttons. when she was Ave.

af

"LA BELLE LULU" LOVED WHERE THE MONEY GREW

YOUNG

From R. M. McColl'

pleres, including

na-

Paris. denly pricked up his cars as gold Edward he overheard a conversation sovereigns and Trench

between his father and his poleons valued at £0,500.

He hurried round to the uncle.

Y conta, aged 21, the

son of a highly respected Customs officer in the port of Marseilles, is a promising student of law. But lately his tutors noticed a marked falling-off in the young man's studies.

love.

me? I have to leave it in my 2 10.110 Lulu” rewarded

Would you look after it for empty hous thloves

umile.

mur-

"Bob"

*said his uncle to his apartment of "La Belle Lulu" father, "I have here some gold and poured it all into her lap.

Just look what I have for have to leave currency. I

ho cried. Marsellles on a business trip.

with a flashing Too many "See me tonight," sho

mured.

But when Edward turried Sho hail up, Lulu was gone. left, so the pollee discovered later, for a small vila in a suburb of Paris, where 1,350 gold pieces were found la boots and shoes.

Lulu was

and arrested charged with receiving stolen goods.

the

The elder Glonta accepted The reason was that young the gold. He walked through Edward was desperately in the house looking for a good place to hido It. He was And to make matters worse, quietly stalked by young Ed- the object of his affections, à ward, who glimpsed an end 35-year-old When the time came for one

circus contor to his problem.

Finally the father stuffed tionist my girls to attend school

named Ernestine I had my own system of leach- Hourre-known professionally the gold under the bath tub as "La Belle Lulu" told The next night-Christmas Ing them traffic safety.

him: "I have no

The Customs officer and his Use for Day-the elder Glonta dined whipper snappern. I am strict put with friends. As soon as brother had brought charges ly a good-time girl. Give me he got home he hurried into against "X, the unknown" in with the theft. the bathroom to make sure connection a man with a thick banit roll."

had safe. It

But when they found it to While Edward was moping the gold was

be Edward van'shed.

they withdrew about the house on Christmas Evo,

he wondering where

Young Edward's haul was them.

included 1,350

(London Express Servics) could find some fun, he sud- startling. It

I would take the child myself for the first week or two. Then I would follow the child with- out her being aware.

I would appear from nowhere

but some of my children could to correct my child when neces- not be made to enjoy tripe and sary. onions or calves' heads, dishes which were cheap and nourish- ing.

At one time I economised by

About films

by buying fish direct from Grimsby usual childhood inesses seemed alarming at first, faith, though we had little more by the stone. I also saved by but with experience 1

came to than my husband's Service pay buying grocery in bulk, such as

be able to diagnose them quick- with no marriage or children's jam in 71b. tins.

1y. allowances.

43 a

The Commonwealth

Alliance

By David Temple Roberts

Quarrels were usually OVCT It paid me to insure against possession of toys or whose turn operations and accidents. Opera- When my fourth baby was it was to help me with homely tions were numerous -- five for born friends criticised. "How tasks. I had a rota system for

alone and 11 for appendicitis awful they said, intending to laying tables and clearing, for

tonsils. be sympathetic.

example.

I never believed in dosing

with medicines

London. whole Empire by its control of previous conferences there seems I could not have coped with them by Our nurse was derided

But for air. sea and to have been a certain amount meeting THE shop assistants for working in my large family if I had not routine.

of the the sea.

Iand strength all the Common- of conversation in groups before As soon as a child goes to

all the such a large household when made it my policy to make the

Commonwealth Prime wealth countries turn; to some general discussion by there were so many jobs going pendent of

self-reliant and inde- school it wants to go to cine- children

me at

the earliest mas. Here I had to be careful. Ministers is surrounded by degree, to Britain. Indian and Prime Ministers. Thus the pro- Japan looking after a "one and only."

spect of a treaty with and Pakistan officers are trained in But while friends wrote after possible moment. I began to cut Only 35 percent of all parents a good deal of secrecy

chil-

Britain;

for the Air Forces was probably discussed first with after the are careful to keep their the birth of my seventh child: the apron strings

dren away from harmful aims. certain aspects of these of the Commonweath all come Australia and New Zealand. "You surely cannot And this a fourth birthday.

In innumerablo

mumeru My 1

children

I either preview a film myself Conferences this is the from Britain. much matter for congratulation,"

Mr Attlee has tried to establish war ways the defence efforts of all was in fact extremely happy. travelled and I have not always before allowing the children to fourth since the

take opinions see it, or

from

alliance is not a seemed designed to mystify these countries are tuned to the that the Conference of the Com- Until my fifth baby arrived been able to go with them.

military system-even monwealth my views mothers who share we had no real home, having

about the dangers of the cinema the outside world.

down to the details of rank, und place for negotiating disputes forms, regiments and

and the way between members of the Cem- to live in a succession of rooms

to children.

The Prime Ministers of to tie a bandage. In that re- monwealth. The reason for this and furnished houses at home

My daughters like dancing

in that he New spect the Commonwealth repre- Commonwealth to break up. and abroad.

and I hit on the idea of or- ganising with the help of others dances for the young. We med

Then we bought a house in London. Of course, sacrifices had to be made.

Expensive boarding

education

became out

school

of the

question. Then, with experience accumulating, I found I could

do without a nurse.

When she went I decided that my elder children had been waited

on far too much. noticed how quicker my four- to year-old was in learning dress and undress herself than The nurse-attended older chil- dren.

Presently I found the four- year-old bathing her younger sister as a surpelse help.

Became M.P.

ADDITIONAL household com-

arose when my husband became Member of Parliament for Cleveland. In Yorkshire. For 14 years our expanding family shuttled back- wards and forwards between London and Yorkshire where one of my babies was born.

Clothing the children un ย slender family budget called for ingenuity,

As one child grew out of her clothes these were carefully put away ready for the next.

arc

MY RULES

DON'T spoil any one of your children by giving in to it every whim,

DON'T be too strict. While 3 apolled child is un- Atted to face life, an over- disciplined one is tempted to become deceitful,

DON'T send your child church alone. Your own example is essential,

to

DON'T

Overrate

child's

natural

your abilities. That leads to disappoint ment. Walch

courage.

DO take a

and

Cn-

in your children's amuse- ments,

dreth

DO be patient with the endless questions of chil- When possible help them to discover the an- stoer for themselves.

a Park Lane hotel ballroom.

It cost only a shilling or two more than a similar dance in any good class suburban hall.

B

Church first

British

and of Australia Zealand, of India, of Pakis- sents one of the closest military tan and of Ceylon, of South al lances between independent Africa and

seen,

he does not want the

He

Prime Ministers become fecis that it Commonwealth court of arbitration in dis- of Southern governments that has ever been

country that putes then the Rhodesia, of Britain and of

feels its case has been disregard- Canada are represented. The Commonwealth Prime

ed would take the step of leaving (Dr Malan, of South Africa Ministers, however, lead govern the Commonwealth. 19 represented by Mr ments with entirely different

foreign policies. Donges, his Minister of In- member of the Atlantic Pact-- terior; otherwise each Prime and has given notice that her are in Europe. the Minister speaks for him- main interests

the liveliest fear has self).

no

UT on Sundays I allow,

until amusements family has been to church.

I attach the greatest Impor- tance to teaching. children their daily prayers

earliest at the

of meet

"

Australia

Canada is a

Asian

British view

TROM the British point of view

there is tremendous diplomatic

of political developments in Asia advantage in the continuance of but she finds her most active the loose association of the Com- This is, indeed, a remark interest in the

Commonwealth monwealth. The "London-Delhi" possible age. real interest

able gathering of the heads Alliance is the defence of the axis has often been listed as the powerful lever Britain most India, One of the most fascinating of nine governments. They Middle East.

Pakistan

her relationship possesses in things about a large family is

at No. 10 Downing variations a long term interest Washington is

Ceylon have with

sight with the United States, Certainly interested in watching the development talents

nly and tastes. Street, children's

Mr Attlee's resi-

in the development of Mary, aged 12, has a gift for dence, without any agenda, nationalism. And that does not them, because it is known that not London's views, and listens to modelling

in clay. A local pot-

without any

Secretary, put them entirely out of sym-

the alma they are arrived at after incca- tery has been enthusiastic about

some of er Brumas ornaments.

without any Press Officers pathy with

China.

South Africa has, for with the countries of the East. who is 13, was to tell the world, without and purposes of Communist sant interchange and compromise chosen from among the children any television cameras and the present, less direct contact That is why the dispute over areas of world crisis Kashmir is so unwelcome to the without any constitution, with the

or Europe-but British Government It is re- procedure. or vetos. So it either in Asia is a meeting as unlike the her future is utterly dependent cognised that India, as the big-

on the survival of

ger power in the dispute with Council as pos- European independence and in- Pakistan, could afford to make Security sible. As the Manchester Buence through the world. Guardian remarked on the opening day, "a great deal

DO try to bring out Initiative. Implant the de- sire to want try things that are new to them, whe- ther it be food, clothes, or amusements.

DO have the courage to leam from your own mis- takes.

PARENTS never finish learning how to be par- cata.

WINDOW ON THE

a

Veronica,

of 40 London schools to leading lady in a children's play presented recently.

Monica at six years of age is displaying an eye for line and colour. She spends hours paint ing.

Summing up I would say that It is much easier to bring up a large family than an only child.

-(London Express Service.)

WORLD

of

Centre of gravity

SA

of

A internation

to diplomatic

fr

So now

the concession to Lisage

plebiscite One of the main reasons why elly

But Mr Attlee 13 cant has always been no agendo 18 compiled for these Kashmir.

unwilling to put pressure Prime Ministers' Conferences is most talked about the Common- that it could become limitless. on Premier Nehru at the Com wealth.".

There is scarcely a topic on the monwealth Conference, in cast globe that does not come within he should retaliate by leaving interests ot one the Commonwealth and weaken- the immediate

Britain's in- of these countries or another, ing, by so doing, Very little information has ever fluence in Washington. SINCE the Second World been available about how these we stand the risk that Pakistan Most of will either leave the Common- War the British La- talics are conducted. bour Government has claim the time, at the last meeting in wealth or refuse to take part in ed credit for a "new Com- London twenty months ago, was future Commonwealth meetings desire of India where the Indian Premier is re- devoted to the monwealth" with its centre to become a Republic. But at presented. aquarium,

the among gravity will of have 500,000 furnishings and newly-constituted countries hun- Allings, cost more than 22- of Asia. Great claims have the re- 330,000 and be designed to been made for Mr Attlee's

of streets give a complete panorama

By John Ashwin

Finally the people

As & change from sending watched 200,000 copie of Gaza The monstermbequ

tion

the

United Nations Organisa- crowd into their already

has recently been gry city. For months

in fugees lived carrying out a more peace- ful role by providing free wille, the townsfolk starved in underwater

their homes. As many meals for 30.000 starving

were people Arabs in Gaza.

every

A

as 10 of visitors.

intu

crowded

mud-plastered tiny Over 33,000 were

life to

In order to ensure rect "watory"!

thousands statesmanship in fashioning The this Commonwealth. virtues of this Common- the cor-wealth have been listed as atmosphere, its lack of constitution, its

tre of milk and five home, grams of sugar and margarine desperately hungry. Some 5,400 visitors will enter the aquarium freedom from obligations,

are all that go into the humble actually starving.

Possing through the town on

William ON

arch of a

otean

vera.

A KILLER IN

THE FLOWERS

From Newell Rogers

EXPERTS∙ndviso

underneath the waterfall. They will then see and its freedom to differ a "Clouds to Earth" cycle within itself on major mat- men), but it is provided TC- The Unicef came to the rescue showing rain falling from arti- ters of policy-four mem-

New York. buy when the Korean war stert- gularly every morning and to flying its director straight fcial clouds Into, rivers, the

inhabi- to the spot from Paris. Today, rivers Blowing into the

bers reognise the Chinese TT might be all right in a cd in June. each of Gaza's needy

of Unicef's work and the water then

Government, returning Communist tants the meal is the first sign as a result

film plot. But one of COLOUR

red, cream, or the clouds. five others do not.

gangland's that their troubles are at last are no longer "foods in a vapour into

laws is that that driving Gaza." getting world attention.

than a black, blue, or green one. Over one and a quarter mli-

There are, in fact, two ways gangsters shoot each other yellow car is more dangerous will fill of regarding the Commonwealth. and not each other's law- They say the warm colours ex- lion gallons of water

'cito drivers behind you and N Coney Island, New York, several tanks, one of Which One is as a chain of countries

sumulate their desire to pass it Gaza's Stevenson learned that

they arc planning the will be the largest in the that share a common tradition

Yot, in Hollywood the you are not driving fast enough the Bri- world'a most

sensational world. The first tank will fea- of Parliamentary rule and'a cer-

for them. Others wilk; tish Army ended il 30 years aquarium. Building is to start ture rainbow. fish.

will taln system of law which they duties in 1048. this yeur when the of occupation

Anest include the Occanic Hall for gained by the accident that all other day, it happened.

THE WEATHER, a war wen- A 62-year-old colleiter, Sam With the Tommies went

and ware at one time directly gov- mar markic architects in

Amerien

Fea monsters, the Jungle kets for a dozen local indus will begin providing homes for Swamp Holl for crocodiles, the erned under the British Crown. Bummel, was ambushed and shot pon? Senator Clifford Anderson

Ish, annexed flaming Indies coal tries. Then Palestine

troduced a Bill in Congress to Al- Tropical, Freshwater Hall and The sterner fact that unites the down in his own front garden thinks it might be. He has 10-

Bmmonwealth is that all these at 1.30 am. Amazon all but two kilometres of the lantic tarpun,

There will Com elec the penguin pools.

For hours the killer walted set up a weather control com- orange groves and wheat fields tric cels, Northern fluke and even be an Anglers' Hall where countries are militarily depen

Some rain-inaking mis believe it one another. It is, of patiently with an old 12-boro

now pos that "normally provided Gaza flounders, and penguins, Oshermen will: kuve; a 'Ash-eye dent on

(to a course, no longer possible for shot-gun across his knees among able to make ram or snow over with 24,000 tons of food a sharks, whales and porpoises view of how they look from Southern waters..

sh) when they go fishing. the Royal Navy to protect the the flower bushes around Rum-large areas. And they argue that

his way to

Salgon,

troubles began when

year.

· FERD’NAND

An Ax-cident

By Mik

mel's £18,000 mansion.

a blizzard in front of the Chi- Rummet was chief legal advi- nese who invaded Korea might ser of Mickey Cohen, Holly- have done as much good as am

atom bomb. wood's gambling king."

Cohen is the despair of the film: writers. They are unable to Imagine scripts as bizarra as what happens down the street to Mickey and his blends.

Rummel is the third of them to die from gunfire in the last two years.

and

t

NEW YORK is adopting the British watem of zone defence against air raids. Hospitals and rescue cows will be spread out through the zones so that rescue work cannot be paralysed by a hit on defence headquarters.

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FOR THE SESTR time since the 1030-48⋅ war ended soprano WAR-SUAKE BUYING

of Kirsten Flagstad anng before a HORD, BURKE,

tinned foods capacity audience at Carnosie has failed to appear in the pig Hal. For the first time therm sont erials Shopkeepers way were no pickets outside to taunt many of their customers hero her about returning to her hum not yet finished paying for the band in German-occupied Nor hoarded goods they stiched tonic strata dal