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THE CHINA MAH? SATURDAY, OCTOBE

Why does a WOMAN take to FENCING? It can't be because it's

all-electric now...it can't be because

that new tunic is so smart.........

-And it isn't very good for the

HAD one or two illusions about fencing before I went to see

the girl who is the

youngest member of this

year's British international

figure

by ANNE SHARPLEY

call

gels

even

on

on

Above all fencing takes time. Three nights a week go "The stiffness I used to suffer lessons. Another evening from was terrible and even now PT ("doing all sorts of horrible if I go without fencing for a fortnight it is just as bad as exercises-bending, stretching beginning again. One uses com- and lunging"). pletely different muscles,"

aggressive sport, at which now times a week) were "rather- fencing team. Good for the the helmeted, padded and pro boring." figure, I thought, remem- tected combatanis

out, bering dashing publicity "Sorry, dear, did i damage

you?"

a lungo shots of starlets spearing

faintly lethal onc another like cocktail

I watched them, in their in- canuper.

human atire, with long cables suman attire, with long cables Must quicken the mind. noted to battery sharpen the reflexes, give wall. The second a hit is made you that extra zip. And the metal woven lunes the

the help

battery to really ap. opponents wear, you

Rives off on irritated buzz. preciate Errol Flynn in cos- tume pictures.

Not a bit of it.

"It's done nathing for my figure," said plamp 23-year- old Margaret Stafford, who is a secretary. "I might lose as much as 8 lb. in a week- end, but I put it straight back on.

AGONY....

"As for costume they're agony! The

is so bad.

of the

genuine."

pictures,

It's all take, none

What remains?

are

I tried

tu

solve The mystery of carrying

on the vestiges of a

ODD

on the

Then there is expense,

forgetting an expensive appetite not which needs two large meals a day at least and lots of steaks,

Equipment costs about £10 but there are inaintenance

CK-

Ball games must be played tions take up "to quicken the eye." Competi- the week-ends, But quite the worst must be that compulsory early morning run in track suit through the avenues, drives and crescents penses such is broken foll blades near her home at Wimbledon. of 10s, 6d, a time. Miss Stafford

To me, bearing all thege has broken Ave Dhis year. And things in mind, fencing adds up This is the newly introduced replacements of clothes, Miss to a shocking nuisance and not wys.em of fencing with electric Stafford suffered the music-hall

n pleasant hobby at all. folls which is now being used calamity of splitting her fencing

pants the in emationally to make

evening I watched ing infallible.

Judg-

It may be progress but it eer- tainly looks odd. With weirdly-

the cable

with

Miss Stafford, who decided to take up fencing when she was #gchoolgirl and the moment she left school joined a club, admits

her.

PRIVATE

only Although fencing need cost a few shillings a year at LCC evening classes (equipment ulso provided) Miss Stafford attends a private club, the fes for which is £14 149, a year,

"So why, please, Miss Stof- ford, why do you do it?"

She looked enthusiastic.

"Becauso it has everything. It is like chess, you are out- witting the other person all the tline. And every year it gets * more fascinating.

'old'

in

"You aren't considereti at 50 in fencing. I am 23, which is practically middle-aged

but in other forms of sport, fencing they think I am terribly young. You can go up to 55 in world class."

"It

"Then," she added, rather nice to represent-Britain."

Miss Stafford will be repre- scating us next at the interna- Rome tional championships in on October 9.

(COPYRIGHT)

SCARED?

OES

By A DOCTOR

ef themselves to be suffering from

D President Eisenwere

strung, weTY-

MARGARET STAFFORD "Sorry, did I damage you ?” London Express Service,

the panicky patient.

BUT NOT ALL THE PRINCES ARE GENUINE

• L. G. PINE

By

(Editor of Burke's Peerage)

ROUND the marriage A crown is in every country a of honour. Remove

of Princesa Virginia fountain

monarch and there is no check Fuerstenberg and

upon the flow of titles. Prince Alfonso of In addition there is no longer Hohenlohe-Langenburg any published guide to foreign otherwise. The Almanach de Gotha was pub- although

路

gathers all the romance and tities, royal or history of ancient European lished from 1763 to 1044, but princely familles.

The prince's ancestry 18 epitaf

traced to 1170 in Germany, Anished

survived

Bu

WATE and Hiller's of Europe, it

with his life.

when the Husaian and his family names are "liberated" Gotha, in Silesia, derived from the chateau of and left the owner, Jeustus Hohenloch possessed by his Perthes, the good fortune to ancestors in 1178, and from consequently, there are hardly Langenbourg, a fief which any barriers to provent a Euro- they acquired in 1232. The pean from resuming a title, even Fuerstenberg line is traced that of prince.

How con wo now distinguish éven further, in Swabla, to between true and falso princes? 1070, and the heads of the in the first place, one theck is family were princes of the to ask for country of origin of Holy

Roman Empire and the royal title. Landgraves in Germany.

What is left

Everything in fact about the pedigrees of these great houses Even now there are still 23 is documented and available, independent royalties left. but It must be particularly irritating to such genuine princed mark,

In Europe 10: Belgium, Den-

Greece, that many bogus Luxembourg,

Liechtenstein,

Monaco, Nether princesses, and ather Lands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In Asta there Afghanistan. Bhutan,

to

know

princes,

title holders exist who cast an unpleasant reflection senuine titles,

barne

upon the are 11:

Modern titles

Nopai

Irak, Japan, Jordan, Persia, Saudi Arabia, Sikkim, Siam and Yemen. In Asia, Ethiopia and Libya (King Idria

There is a Gresham's law in 1 of the latter filled up the place modern

titles as there is In fr the monarchiel register economics and it works the vacated by ex-King Farouk of

the way. Just as

bad Egypt). mney drives out the good, s A member of one of these 23 the multitude of bogus les royal families will be styled casts a reflection oven upon the Prince or Princess (in Bhutan ones, for how many and Sikkim the stylo Ls

cr

of

genuine poople can imow at once whiên Maharaj), and such cases are, is ancient and renowned,

course, perfectly genuine. merely the invention of a Besides these, we have a Genapse waiter. who hns

of quasi-Independent emigrated to Paris?

royalties, such as the Sultan of There are some very good Morocco, the Bey of Tunis, and reasons why a multitude of self- the King of Cambodia; and some conferred royalks should now smaller independent rulers, like be looked on the world. After the royal style is used.

where the Sultan of Bahrain, the 1014-18 war, four great

and

exico and the central chancel- recognised

their records have consed to

"I don't really think it helmeted heads, twitching helps quicken the reflexes, insect-lke movements and now the buzz, IT Might help n little driving fencing fight looks more like n a car. I suppose.

couple of crickets trying to get off restraining leashes,

Although it clearly requires a great deal of skill, fencing is a sport

which needs in the first

And when she goes abroad to place a lot of patience, and an represent Britain she meets to aching most of the east herself although

empires, Germany, Austria, Then there is the position of fencing users

ing individuals.

Rush

Turkey, went to the Aga Khan, whose full title "a certain amount" is provides heart attack make you feel nervous, highly She has been to Holland, alarmed about your heart?

pieces..

HH the Many of the genuine

Aga Sultan Sir Belgium and France, so far this Do you movements

What about real chronic

princes have a

or Mohammad Shah, and sneaking

were either killed

whoso

year.

or reduced to abject rank and status have long been fear that your last attack of organic heart disease?

by the British Within the last 10 years the of valvular disease which are fecies which used to preserve Government. that the first two years of learn- So fencing At international indigestion may have been ing the basle movements (three level is not inexpensive,

situation has been revolutionis, both safe and efficient.. heart trouble after all?

ed. The bulk of this type of If you are scared, I say trouble

Islam prince Is valvular disease So we can take cheer, The function.

In 1931 Spain discarded its you should stop worrying. following rheumatic fever. Here overall position is good. Per-

1939, great skill hops 10 percent of whit is monarchy; since

Italy, The Aga Khan's rulership is For despite what has hap- the surgeons, with

Yugoslavia spiritual, and have led "heart disease" isn't heart Rumania, Bulgaria, greater courage,

cuts across pened to President Eisen devised operations for the relief discase at all.

and Albania have followed suit, rational boundaries. He is a

Prince (hence the use of the hower, in the majority of heart

title for his son Aly Khan) of a cases suspected

sect in Islam, which numbers trouble is, in fact, indiges-

several millions of people. The tion and nothing more.

Aga Khan is entitled to a salute Only the other day a

of 11 guns, which was the ¿verage came into my consulting room

the the case with a familiar story: "It's my

Indian Princes, formerly rulers neart, doctor-it's always been

under the British states weak." He wes an overweight

Crown, all of whom bore the title of His Highness. Again, flabby business man whose work

the heir of the British-protected kept him indoors and whose

Sultan

La Johore Crown leisure was also spent in good,

Prince Ismail. comfort under a good solid

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get the pain here," ho complained, clutching the lower part of his chest with his left hand, an arco below which his

heart was believed to bent. NOTHING WRONG

He was reassured to learn that there was nothing at all wrong with his heart. He was only mildly upset to learn that the

trouble was indigestion. This consisted of cutting the food intake by nearly one-half and taking a moderate amount

of exercise.

He wes game and he did it Six months later he looked and felt ft, slept well, and enjoyed life. He had lost 391b. in weight, and no longer knew or cared where his, heart was

and

HE WANTS TO BE CHEF AT

BUCKINGHAM PALACE

UDOLF

By NORMAN LINDHURST

mari

lof

of

There are difficulties enough Bad Kissingen, and respect through expert up- vised in 1038 for Prince Louis

grandson of the in some of the cases outlined BOIJ

gra (pro- plications of the old adage. "The Ferdinand,

bride Kyra, above, but they are as nothing his stomach,”.

Grand Duchess of Russia. The to the pitfalls which occur once deal with former royalist to royalty, would like Queen The rotund Hitle

has, banquet tables were laden with we

which have become. speciality American-countries Elizabeth to know that he is through 50 years, catered to the Bolj's

epublics, still available for a position culinary whims of three gonert style buret.

of Hohenzollerns

The name of Prince Sopleha in Buckingham Palace.

At reached the peak of his care

On another occasion, the 80th comes into the news from time he became chef to the birthday of the Kaiser in 1940, to me. The family of Supkcha present Rudolf is head chef when

1937. Bol had a glunt culinary job is of ancient Lithuanian origin late Kaiser Wilhelm at the newly-opened £88,000 Boil held the position until the on his hands, This festivesend the Saplehas became nobles that country gambling casino here, but exiled emperr's death m 1941, went on for 10 days to Detrt of Polind when

tions

he is not content for, as an in Doorn, Holland acquaintance of the Duke of Edinburgh and former chef

to the last German Kaiser,

In the intervening years

of

the aged, former cmperor

to ma Lithuani were united in cat and rest and ròceive a horde the 19th century, The title of of well-withors, Intermittently: prince was recognised, for the

But the biggest single day's Sapiehas in Poland in 1707, he work, the 10-year-old Ball re- he states quite frankly that was employed by Czar Ferdin members,

Novel case was overseeing a1. he can

happy and of Bulgaria, Crown Prince buffet at the Persian Embassy A somewhat parallel case, is never be cooking for commoners--no Duke Ludwig

Wilhelm in Potedam.

Grand in Berlin, in 1835, attended by that of Prince Henry de Faucigny Hesse In 350 guests. Darmstadt," and many other

Lucinge, a genealogical scholar matter how wealthy.

Cherib-checked Bolj learned whose family originated "I wrote a letter to Queen Counts and Princes,"

his trodo as a 17-year-old ap4 Savoy, and was given the right Elizabeth and ́, offered my ser-

It was during his tenure prentice in the kitchen of tieto bene the title of Prime of Too many patients worry vices, since. for many years my with Duke Ernst Dudwig that Duke of Mecklenburg.

Lucinge in 1828. about their heart. It is about cooking has been known to her he came to know the tall, quiet

Yet not every prince is what the toughest part of the body husband."

13-year-id Philio, defined to

he claims to be.. An indiention bo.

become Duke of Edinburgh.

at this may be gleaned from the Philip "was always a nich. quiet,

well-mannered yound comfortable, overstuffed

When I last him sitting in a foot that in Italy under Muso

chair, lini all title-holders were forced Shortly afterwards, Rudolf re- man," Belj recalls, | night, year'in, year out, through-calls ho received a polite nota He also recalls King Paul of, within hearing distance of the to register, and on registration whirring roulette balls óf the a huge number were found to bu out the whole of life.

from the Palace thanking him Yugoslavia as a child, as well Hed. Kisingen casino, he was The great majority of people for his offer, but declining it, ps Prino Bernhardt and then going up at the

self-conferred 17th century

The

Italian Government who think they suffer with their "The letter said it would be Princess Jullana.

oriental tapestries which cover recently issued a list of 60 Orders heart are really suffering from too difficult the English "They were all such fine the walls of the spacious of Chivalry which were declared indigestion due usually to over- people to accept a German cher people, but those days are gone gambling room, and at the my-to be spurious, add a lively rating or unsuitable eating to In the Royal palace, BO Boon for over. There just arent rind darling splinters of Bigstoffle in orders has gone 6 chronic air-swallowing, being after the terrible war."

enough - nobles and princes left from a large Venetian crystal the pa

often lod- by "princes, overweight, and taking insuf

Bolj, son of poor Hamburg to go cround rny more.”

chandelier.

In

Táir, proportion of ncient exorcise.

parents, has spent his lifetime One of Boli's fondest mem- "Such things," he murmured, the princes we hear about are There is another large group at banquets with kings and cries of the good old days" was “help an old man remember a bogás. of people who falsely believe potentates, winning their praise the wedding feast he

little about custics and kinks.""

(COFTEIGST)

it has to

It is a pump which contracta

| af least once à second for every

minute of each hour, day end

JOHNNY HAZARD

ONE OF THESE RIFLES FIRED THE REAL SLUG...THE OTHERS BLANKS! NOW IF I CAN ONLY FIND ONE DIFFERENT

SHELL

for

↑ TWO MINUTES LATER

"ALL ALIKE! ALL FIRED...BUT NO INDICATION THAT ONS WAS A LIVE CARTRIDGE / MUST ES SOME. WAY OF PINNING TON THE "EXTRA

WHO MADE THE MURDER TRY!

super-

By Frank Robbins

MAMLIVE SHELL BLANK SHELD [ISSUED BY PROPMAN OF COURE !

THERE MUST BE AN UNBIRED BLANK

AROUND SOMEWNGREA.

WHERE'S THE PREŠENO ROOM?, X, MUST CATCH THOSE EXTRAS BEFORE THEY LEAVE!).

situation.

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