1954-12-11 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1954.

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of 'The World

WHAT CHILDREN WANT How Goats Get Their Tit-bits In The Off-season

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FOR CHRISTMAS, 1954 添酸”

New York.

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Atomic age or no atomic age, junior is asking this Christmas for the same toys his father used to get from Santa. That means cowboy suits

and the ever-popular clectric train.

bikes

wagong

Toy manufacturers, who are stick to the celling for a rainy-ruited in a spate of King Arthur chalking D thele dest billion- day pastime, dollar year with reced Christ-

Jer that

19:0

Bukle,

suks azul offer "pojence the tios" Legs Have a rectain appeal but

childrer peres

vanelling more conventional

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world's

Freight cars mave faster sell faster, that is then frownlined fas esuper rars The kids want a Funta to hnui something. like a red train does."

Chibi ychologist and enfocam

ape that today's bre

Cappaltoate

play volue

HD

beatzar

Moves and comic strips with medlugval characters have

COLOURED

MINK

NEXT YEAR

Otlawn.

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Canadlan minks will sport "more exotic" colours this winter and next.

Just plai rolank to't good enough for mulady now She park

wants pastel Buos, silvers und The AC

The blues.

hard way three years ago.

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wait with alled atomuks bob ki, Jeete with geigen rowinter Caioactive "urandum particles." The Boys turned up their notes. It was for far-fetched, and be- sales, it wouldn't blow up any

link.

So GPbert went back to cun centrating 013 much 3urn-fre train E battl tiny

100s

milk eins

Patkegaling! For 1

2 tar, are

methang-with- Selling better than

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bups and or plate

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The little Inink hus obliged. A few generations ago, experts produced mutations,

The recent trend toward nora exotic colours In mink coats in this country und

the United States la reflecte! In 1954 pilt production forecasts." mink breeders saki.

"It is expected that th year's peiting

season, which

commences shortly. will close to 140,000 stverbivo 27 200,000 pastel mink pelts Con- Ing off Canadian ranches."

FOLLOWS TREND

The production represon 18 ons of 30 and 75 per cent, re-

actively, over 1953.

The

mce-dominant "stand- ard mink" pelt erop will show

derline ths

year

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than 20 per cent from 1953. The I reras s placed the harvest 258,000 pelts. autom bolts,

The the fashion trend stane caly

mink furs is following a paltera fun the living

the silver wuft

conilar to that of Muty

i fax

in The 'thirties," the breeders suk. Twenty years ag the shindard silver bowed the out in popular demand to so-called platinum types."

This year's fox pelt output

Canada is expected

to fail off by about 45 per cent.

Tolay's mink breeding-stock population in Canada stands t 101 thon 282.000, down satu

last year. eight per cent from The decrease is blamed on

the numbers drop of 40,000 bi

standard minks. Un

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most expensive Gifts

can afford.

at a price you can

Sennet Frères

French jewellers since 1870

Oponed until 6 p.m. (inel.: Saturdays) up to Xmus.

breastplates, vizared helmets and mated shleids, und scabbards that hold collapsible "excall- knight-in-armour outselling suits and roy guns two-lo-one.

bars," The

equipment

space

Even the old magle lantern is enjoying a new round of popu- larity. One best-seller at Christ- mas provides three-dimensional slides from a catalogue of 300 subjects ranging from Bible stories to Roy Rogers.

En all toys, Junior is demand. Ing realism, according to markel experts. He is quick to recognise shabby imitations His elephant gun must have a real telescopic sight ant

Just a blob of plastic at the tip of the barrel. ilte model cur must semble the real thing down to the hubenps. Kids are hot smarter today theza

kids," marsurfaceitaret refleted-United

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Although the Children's Zoo in London is closed down for the winter months, the popular and mischievous goats, with their enormous and insatiable appetites, have found a way of making sure that they still get their tit-bits. They stand on their hind legs at the barrier separating the children's section from the main Zoo and find that visitors are unable to resist their silent appeal, — London Express Photo,

Come To Austria For The

World's Safest Skiing

That

Vienna.

The Austrian Ski Association, aware

fear of broken bones affects business, is offering the "world's safest skiing," as part of its drive to make the coming winter tourist season the biggest since World War II.

The Association gives Agures For those who like their sports pensant

F

Jackets, long leather

hats,

meet

oach

to back up its claim. It says lesa strenuous, the alpine high-pants and brond-rimmed

farmers Gross mountain that no more than two sklers per way artss 13,000-foot

Sunday to watch the month break legs at the average glockner mountain is turned into winter big Austrian show resort, while a giant sled trail after be heavy wooden diska skim across

the ice. the number at resorts of other comes impassable for cars. nations often exceeds 19 on a single week-end.

The

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On Boxing Day, December 26, and Epiphany, January 8, there Better teaching and more

of will be sled races for all classes L makes the difference,

Helligenblut the with the town of Austrians say, Most big hotels in Tyrolean and Vorarlberg re- sorts like Kitzbuehel and Zuers have their own ski Instructors, crawn from the International skiing cite.

245 Ski Lifts

es Girish Line.

Ski racing fans will have the chance to see at least three this major International meets season-the Hahnenkamm

race

Seefeld in Tyrol province will hold this year's Austrian curling championships on December 19.

World sports interests will cen- re on Vina on February 13- 17 when the world figure skating cltampionships will be held.

Most of the hotels in this In Kietzbuchel on January 15 resort areas offer a three-day and

the International alpine package deal Including a room Junio: meet at Innsbruck on with a bath, heat, tax and three February 12 and 13 and the meals

day for bout 200

Winter Sports

day

More ski lifts and cables carsSeefeld meeting on March 5sehillings or about £2-12-0 G than ever before help

und 6. too in the winter tourist get making the full measure of enjoyment. This winter there will be 245 ski lifts and 38 cable car Burs operating in the Austriun ski country.

Don't Fall For

This Trick!

Be-

Washington. The Post Office warns; ware of the "Spanish Swindle." It is a "hidden money" scheme still being used to cheat Ameri- eans out of more than $100,000

Q

Postmaster-General Mr Anthur

E. Summerfield says the swind- lers now appear to be picking nomes of victims from "Who's Who in America"

and

from

lists of professional people. He added

is hard to tel how many Americans have been victimised because many keep

their losses to themselves

avold embarrassment,

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there

Mr Bummerfield sale are many forms of the "racket" but essentially it in worked like this:

"

The intended victim gets letter from Mexico from a man In prison" who claims he has hidden

a lot of U.B. currency outside the gaol The latter says that to get out of prison, to get this money,

the sender must have money usually about $10,000 which the victim is to bring to Mexico,

In many cases the "prisoner" enhances the

the prospect of Mexican trip by mentioning his who will

"beautiful daughter”

be the go-between.

in

When the victim, arrives Mexico he is met by the swind- lers and relieved of his cash by trickery or force-United Press.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

·IF ONLY THERE

WERE COME WAY

"O GET OUT OF

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City-type night life during the winter months can be found in nearly all of the bigger resorts Curling

ilke Lech, St Antoh, Zell am sport popular In the Austrian Sea, Zuers and Kitzbuchei.— alps. Dressed in red and green United Press.

another winter

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

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"We can't get married because I'm stuck för high school, and college after that and all because Dad never fin lshod the coventh grade!"

By Robert L. May

- THAT'S ITŹ IN THE EXCITEMENT

1 FORGOT ALL ABOUT MY HOSKÝ,

Lonka

MILK

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LAN OPEN LETTER

TO THI TERA OF HONG!

Gainsborough

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an a co-operation with us in our difficult.

Cordially,

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Merry Xmas, Dad

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