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A Threefold Anniversary
Budapest
capital
The Hungarian will celebrate a threefold Anniversary in 1955, the Budapers now paper Mag- yar Nemzet announced,
The clty, according 10 #ome gelertifically verified legends, has been founded a thousand Years ago, # Was rebullt, after the Tarları devasta ́ed it, 700 year ago In 1955, and finally, Russia's Red Army drove out the Germans 10 years ago in 1045-United Press,
SHE HELPS
TO BREAK
UP HOMES
Probíhly the jalgo and women.
Vanmotiver
hardest of all
Catted
these maya Mis Mary Beich.
She's wrecking homier, You might even call her a profes sionel hʊme-wrecker.
MI Blevich, new arrival from Italy, is taking to her new Job with gusto.
Wrecking homes may well be Loant women's hobby, lite to Mrs Blecich it's presently a trade,
She and her husband, Fred! Bleeich, have been seen cruising sound town in an ancient truck, which
ich they acquired expressly for wrecking houses,
Mrs Becich, clad in rubber boots, thick woollen Indian sweater and capped with babooshka, wields a crowbar or axe as well as any lumberman They're now knocking down an old, two-storey house at Georgia and Cambie streets. It's the fourth demolition Job the Blecich Arm has undertaken,
The 31-year-old housewife and her 40-year-old husband took on the job mainly to get Jumber for their own home.
"If Russian women can do a man's labouring job, 1 can too," Mary said.
She's
bride of a little more A than 10 months and a Canadian resident for more than a yran
She said she won't be in this business
very long.
"Only unil we've got enough lumber, then I'm going to turn In my crowbar and take up an apron. I'll be feminine then, and maybe raise four or five kida,United Press.
A NEW TWIST
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1954.
From All Parts OF The World
Women Of
Indonesia Seeking Emancipation
Djakarta.
"Indonesian women wish to be treated according to modern, 20th Century laws, The lot of women has been far from pleasant," the liberal -independent Djakarta newspaper Mimbar Indonesia said in commenting
on a recent demonstration by the women's organisation "Perwari,"
Perwari requested withdrawal of the Government Regulation No. as four wives of government 19 which permits pensions for as many officials.
Continuing, Mimbar Indonesia said: "They have suffered. much There were no because of arbitrary behaviour by the Indonesian men. laws protecting the woman's rights. We support their demands for We urge the government to draft a marriage improvement of their lot
The sooner the
law. Government decree No. 19 should be revised. better."
Malaya Produces An
Errol Flynn Who Can Also Sing
Singapore.
Recently, several women fainted in a cinema here during a picture in which a handsome Malay of medium stature was involved in a head-on car collision.
On another occasion, women screamed at the sight of this same young man having his leg amputated in a
film.
East-Central
In Negri Sembilan state, located in Malaya, boys turned up for school one day wearing They were only copying their film hero, they explained to a horrified teacher.
moustaches.
The Communist Harian Rakjat said. "The demonstration In- dicates that Indonesian women ere becoming conscious of their rights, and that they are pre- pared to ghi for their cmUR- cipation. The feudal position of women--which makes them the victim of various
kinds of uppression--should be eliminat- We salute the women, who
our
ed.
partielpated in the demonstra- Gon. Their demands are demands. Their fight 16 tho fight of the entire Indonesian people,"
Indonesian Raya, independent
socialist and generally reflecting the opinion of certain army clr-
eles, opined Indonesian women
regard the Regulation No. 19 an stimulant to polygamy and it should be removed.
"The defenders of this decree hide behind Islam, But a good deal of injustice towards women Is caused by polygamy In the name of islam. Improvement of the lot of Indonesian women must come through marriage thelr Laws
which safeguard rights. These laws can regulate the mutter of polygamy so that Indiscriminate divorces and re- marriages should be restricted."" BASIC QUESTION Berita Indonesin, leftist na- tionailst daily
"Since wrote: the war there has never been a women you of demonstration demanding their rights.
"Ever before the war quest on of polygamy was in the melight. This question is the basts for Indonesia's small,
movement."
The object pt this adulation is lucky in his career and with
ab amiable, soft-spoken the ladies in his life, fellow named Ram Leo, who
Paradoxically, Ram Lee is not ranks as Malaya's answer to married. "I have never had the Errol Fly-with difference inclination to get married," he that Ram Lee also can sing. says, smiling. "I'm too afraid I'll Malayan
marry some woman who is the jealous type."
women
Idolls hins, and even the men admit that he is a bit above the ordinary mule.
Ram Lee has been this coun- try's top star-male or femide for several years, and looks like staying the No. 1 star for a long time to come.
Aveiro. Portugal. In a new twist on the sex- change story, a 19-year-old glet came to the hospital here for an appendix operation, at 1ft the hospital as a 30-year-olri, vals
2131
attur
Ram Le rose to film stardom not as any overnight sensation the Hollywood tradition, out
only after a series of insignificant roles which Kive him the necessary experience to
10 big things. FI started out in a crooning cum-
home ไปล petition
71
די
lown,
He has no near One director said the day, Rani Lee has, Penang. Then, he was spotted by Hospitol authorities said the equal In this country. fle is
studio director and given his patient, dressed as a girl check- į streets ahead of the rest, He is first role in pictures. He usually ed in as 10-year-old Muria a dynamic."
played a villain or a comedian, Adelalte Suures Netu.
was he considered doctors confirmed
Not once romantic material.
When
the
women's
Amphibious Craft
Members of the United States Transportation Corps are now experimenting with their new buze 60-ton landing craft--which has been given the name "Baro" (Initial letters of Bargem Amphiblogs, Re-supply Cargo) and which เล massive land and ses machine for the transportation of heavy military equip. mont. Its overall length is 01.8 ft., wịdth 27.9 [L., and height 17.0 ft. The wheel base is 20 ft., and the weight of the vessel complete with fuel is 187.000 lbs. Each of its four massive wheels fa powered independently by one 165 h.p. Diesel engine and on entering the water it is propelled by twin screws each powered by one pair of the same Diesel engines. In spite of
ita tremendous size the Bare can move easily over soft sand and sharp coral, with loads of up to 100 tons.-Express Photo.
The New Ice Cream
Sundaes May Even Yet Need
A Liquor Licence
Toronto.
The modern ice cream sundae, instead of a scoop of vanilla fleating in chocolate syrup, has become something for which you need a raisin, two halves of apricot, coconut whiskers, a tin whistle or a liquor licence.
The modern soda fountain now serves appetising ice cream delights entitled the Traffic Light Special, the Banana Cabana, the Wolf Whistle, or the Sunnyside Up, reproducing two fried eggs and bacon,
I also asked for withdrawal of Regulation No. 19 as well as formulation of marriage laws. other
the hand, On the Independent Times of Indonesia, only English daily in Indonesia, concluded that "any cabinet that accedes to the Perwart' demand and cuts off pensions from junior Магин the1
The No. 1 star of Malaya is
wives will automatically put - no steal he-man, by Western
"I always studied closely the self out of court by invalidating found standards. He is Ove feet seven horn, niches tall, weighs 10 pounds, if British and Amerton Islamic practice as it applies to
he said the Guy. the distribution of a deceased's manufacturers. dark
and brown eyes and
property and effects "I have always admired Stew- pictures, complexion. In his
attempting to innovate in the art Granger in particular. however,
he manages to rout his enemies with the same have only one complaint and highly sensitive and dangerous fold of religion."United Press, swanhbuckling case displayed by that is that we do not have na Flynn, and he always has the much
in the art of making ladies falling for
was actually a mate, they cheek- ed in the records and their patient had been not 10, but 30 years ago →→ United Press.
Roasted To Death
Lisbon.
Jose De Andrade, 75, was skittles.
death when rousted 10
he
hmm ke as the British and
In Malaya, actors cannot kiss bedded down in the community Also, Ram Lee is a fine actor their leading ladies, since kiss- for of something
which hising in public is forbidden
bakcoven uk the village
up
oven
average
voice,
by
Leomil to keep worm. While Hollywood rival is not noted, the Islamde religion. Even warm Andrade was asleep someone And to this better-than-expressions of love are not per-
and mitted. had
Blocked
the
crooning
At best, the Malay Villagers now refuse to use the you have a picture of a hand-stars can hold hands and look big stove-United Press.
some, talented young man who into each othor's eyes with
sentimental expression.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
| Spe
GAI
the looks of galoshes—if I do catch cold, I oan fów days off and my apartment needs cleaning!
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A NEW OBSTETRIC DEVICE
Sydney.
Bossle Scott, a United States expert in sundaes with sex appeal, displayed her repertoire manuel Canadian ice cream by Miss Scott, who weighs 179 pounds, said she had gained 45 pounds in the past five years on her job.
#1
which, she said, a Canadian sada fountain would need 0 liquor lloence.
It can be made in the home, however, as follows:
Take three scoops of ice cream in a dish, one flavour or mixed.
Fill in between
scoops with whipped cream and pine- apple sauce.
a
the
"I don't eat much ice cream,
Place seldom more than a pint a day."
a banana upright, like She said. "But when I'm out the National Cenotaph. giving food demonstrations I
Top the banana with a marsh- mallow and
cube sugar just eat all day long. I'm buman garbage pali.”
which has been soaked in a Miss Scott
the good grade of rum designed
(or vaniļa Sunnyside Up sundae for a extract if you're sissy).
Olilo,
Light the sugar cube.-United Dayton,
Press, restaurant. The oggs art the opricot halves and the bacon is strips of wafer biscuit.
ham-and-cksя
The Wolf Sundae, made with Caught
chocolate syrup, whipped cream, powder and slices of
three flavours of ice cream,
malt
Australian obstetricians NOT TRUE
believe a device invented by Ram Lee was being consoled that all actors in Mohammedan a Sydney doctor for ob- countries are in the same boat, stetrie forceps may prove banana is something to whistle
"No, that is not truc," he a tremendous advance in about snid A little sharply. How safeguarding babies during about Egypt? Film stars there birth. make love more violently than even the British and cane!"
his romantic
How
deliver
01.00 4
USUALLY SORRY
Sort-sighted Бода fountain ITACHI sometimes give sway whistles to promote this rundae. They're usually sorry.
10
Ice
Up With After 7 Years
St Catherins, Ontario. An "absent-minded" clothing store customer bogen a 18-mouth gool term after a policeman and salesman jogged his memory.
Obstetric forceps, Ameri-
secret Instrument of the
Donald Angus, 80, took a oro used
The Traffic Light sundae is an fancy to a coat he saw in a store Whether or not he believes barber-surgeons, ability is some confinements to
babies in complicated
cream cone turned upside and tried it on. While the sales save the lives
talking what cramped by theso religious of mother and child.
down with two raising for eyes, man was
to another
ties, Ram Lee nonetheless
The new
device is reported cherry for a nose and a customer he "absent-mindedly" managed to establish himself as
on by its inventor, Dr William whipped cream ruff around the walked out.
throat. This can be the top Malay film lover within
changed, The salesman and a policeman D. Cunningham, an obstetrician
the Santa Claus nabbed him and when he op- Street Macquarie Street, Sundne by adding coconut shreds peared in court the judge als- Icy
"absent - minded Since
covered his 1947 he has been regarded a Journal, official
in the Australian Medical for whiskers,
publication of Miss Scott's super special is pickups dated back to 1947- this country's leading
popular
tho Super-Torch the British Medical Association
sunidae, for United Press, singer. He won this position
a three-year sping ability is in Sydney's equivalent of Har-seasonably to
Allled to his
his rating as a crooner.
by virtue of his win
winning the national crooning contest.
in this country.
In It is an on inflatable rubber over the stcel the two previous years he had pad which fits finished third and then second. blades of the forceps. It com Ram Lee takes his Job very ables the doctor to spread the Berlously In his dressing pressure of the forceps evenly room at the Malay Film Pro-over the baby's head, instead ductions Studio, bo shouts, of concentrating it on one part. sneers and laughs at his own Thus, it greatly reduces
forces applied at Image in the mirror,
any time and That's the only way I can makes birth much safer for the
child. picture," fie ex- plained. "We don't have drama
train for
the
"Cunningham'z device may
Parisian Grill
TO-NIGHT
instructors like they do in well reduce the possibility of PAT KAY & BETTY ANKERS
Hollywood, you know."
any injury to the unborn child's
By the end of his current head which is sometimes un-
year. to go, he feels he will be.
contract, which has anotherDEN
ready
caused by ordinary.
commented a leading Jack Geller
to try for film role Sydney specialist.
farther anekd. He has in mind a Midwifery forceps were in- At The
trip to London, and perhaps vented an Englishman,
Dr
Hollywood, but really hat the Feter Chamberlen, one of the Hammond Organ roles available to him there third generation of a family of
would be very limited and French barber-surgeons there would be scant chance of immigrated to: London in 1870..
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Food Prejudices Analysed
New York.
Food prejudices in the aged were offered in evidence that life doesn't have to be a straight line' marked by the milestones of years but can be a circle which returns to its beginnings in the' suckling infant.
Dr Elias Savitsky, attending neuro-psychiatrist to the some 1,000 residents of the home for aged and infirm Hebrews, found that many eating problems among his patients went all the way back to infancy, in the un- conscious minds of the patients, of course,
"Food prejudices often serve its unfavourable effects on the ca protective devices against digestive tract mitigated." anxictice," which had their He gavo ta an example, origio iu "the first sustained | frankfurters. Somo of the huinon contact of the Infants aged residents were unable to sucking, ho said. The anxieties | digest them when monus wero "ofien represent a reactivation rigid. They're no longer
rigid in the feeding altuation of his the restcents who don't have ཡཝ (the patient's) childhood striv- frankfurters when they are on Ing and Drustrations in relation the
may have
instead 2
eggs
agod -per-
sons now often choose frank- furters and digest them readily.
to the parent," the doctor said.
The home's medical staff, he sald, had instructed the nutri- "We are obliged to review tionists that they were "direct
many fondly hold descendents, many generations,
regarding removed, of the original feeding certain foods, and to re-evaluate the "Indigestibility' of mother," Aa 1 result, the
notions
nutritional problems which were what is meant by a light or
entirely psychological
readily solved.
were convalescent diet suitable for the
eged," he said,
Bhori, food prejudices
Dr Savitsky's findings were were respected not trilled part of a continuing psychiatric
with.
research
programing at the by home, which is one of the largest voluntary homes for the aged separating the aged individual
stir
anxiety up
from his food prejudices, has in the country and has an ex- certain dangers in view of his ceptional medical, psychological,
.sociat service.----Unitedi
diminished adaptive capacities," And
Press.
th
Misunderstood
Stockholm.
Dr Savitsky said. "To have his meals offered in an atmosphere of freedom from restriction can have the connusation to him of for without the being cared
An accordion player was sent demands or hospital with stab wounda which
with
becauso a listener thought he was a "dogglo in the window.” parental love in early years,
*The emotional reactions, The musician was playing the pleasant and unpleasant, deve- American tune at a party. Bo- Swedish "word for loped in early life to the com-cause the bined feeding and disciplinary "doggie" also means “bad man-
accompanying compliance
HO
situation can be tinged with nered youth a guest sitting in more pleasure in the light of a window become angered. Desurance of love without un- He followed the muzician due demands for obedience, outside und stabbed...... hlm.--- Anxiety may be diminished and United Press.
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