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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956.
Interesting News Stories. From All Parts Of
Dorothy's Decided To Rough it ON OLD McDONALD'S FARM
Cochrane.
A young Ontario woman who doesn't plan to get married, has never been to school, worn lipstick, visited
a
hairdresser
DF
A
movie in the past five years. may have found the secret of a contented life.
Dorothy McDonald.
Luat its
Windsor, Ontario, 27 years ago,
100
in a pioneer who yes ms her frest grandparent chic years ago.
She lives in Ontario's north- land, 30 mites from Cockrano where a river named the Drift- wood flows across her property to empty into James Ray.
the
Dorothy's family Bed to north in the grim 1030's when her taxi-driver father couldn't get a job in Windsor and ne- cepted a government offer peltle people In the north.
A LOG CABIN
to
The family built a log cabin and cleared
but lew acres,
Men
1 found things tough. Donald took jobs away home In the winter and
back
he until money suddenly of a heart attack,
from
sent
died
That was when the die was cast for Dorothy, then a child. An older son and daughter had left home and Mrs McDonald decided to stay in the north "where we were beholden no one,"
to
By the Ume Dorothy was 13, their log cabin had to be rebuill so she re-modelled one herself from an old chicken coop.
During the war. she spent three weeks In Toronto where her sister worked in a munition plant, and decided city fe wasn't for her.
Jand
OF
'She went back to her and today owns 160 acres which 80 is cleared, 10 head of cattle, and a new barn.
NO COMFORTS,
Or
Her home has no electricity. water, telephone, television washing machine. She has no ear and her closest neighbour is Ave miles away. The nearest school, doctor, drugstore cinema la at Cochrane,
and
con-
But she is proud and tented. She said: "I don't want everybody in the world to know have my dreams. But they something to do with the farm."
Dorothy sells cream in the summer and beef and eggs in the winter. She buys suger, flour and tea and kerosene for the lamp and she and her mother, now 07, make their own bread and butter. They have 100 pounds of frozen beef and a hog for the winter. A deep freeze len't needed in that area where the mercury touches 40 below zero,
often
She dresses like a man be- cause the eluthes are easier for work and more comfortable for the climate: Her hair is cut like a boy's. She has fine re- gular features, clear skin, blonde hair and carries 136 pounds on her muscular frame of Ave fest Ave inches,
HARD WORK
Soo From From Paris: Paris Will Soon
Another Madcap Party. This Tima Guosts Have To Present Special Pass- ports and Visas To Get In The Front boor.
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From Cochrane: A
Got From Plonoor Finds Happinoss in Buckskin Down On Old McDonald's Farm.
The
World
Not Elome: what Happens,
Whon Men Strike, But When They Refuse To Stop Working For No Pay? That's The Problam In Sicily.
New York: A Famous Plar- tic Surgeon Saya Women Are Not Looking For The Elixir Of Youth-Thoy Just Want Their Faces To Look 10 Years Younger!
Passports & Visas
To Get Into This
Paris.
Tho cream of Paris' in- ternational set. prepared today to plunge back into the glories of the last five centuries.
Three hundred carefully selected guests will attend one of the highlights of the Winter social
Acason
These "paasporta" were sent to each of the guests with their invitation and before they received the necessary "visa" the costumes they will wear had to be approval.
bail to The theme of the
and the glory of artists writers of the XVih to XIXth Centuries."
Needed Party
writers speaking Generally
have chosen the disguise of a writer, painters that of a painter and musicians that of a musician.
AS
Chilean multi-millionaire and art-lover Arthuro Lopez es a Vieeroy of Peru, Prince Henri of
Goothe. magnate Als briand
ag Ortorico Spain's Marquis longo NS
Thus, popular novelist Marcel Achard will appear as Henri Beylo bel'er known
the 191b Stendhal,
Century author of "Le Rouge et le The Nol" (The Red and Block.)
lavish costume ball You Become Your Hero Francis Poulme, one of the
Most of the celebrities attend- In the festivity have chosen the disguise of the person they would like to have been. This appeared to substantiate Jean Cocteau's statement that
given by the Countess | AL Marie-Laure de Nouilles in her plush Place des Etats-Unis home. Before any of them can get.
through the
guarded gates they will have to produce h "passport" bearing an "entry visa" signed by the Countess.
1
SIDE GLANCES
| T.M. Aug. 13. Pal Offi
1951 by HEA Bervice Ine.
ronshed ball unmasks,"
Women guests were also allow
ed to represent the subject of a painting or the heroine of a literary work.
By Galbraith
"I've taught my wife to play poker-with a little luck
I win back from her half of my pay cheque every week!”
IT'S NOT A STRIKE -BUT AN E-K-I-R-T-S
Rome.
Italy is up against a strike in reverse.
for
to gaol,
a
famed "group of six" revolu-
orary
contemporary Can- posers founded by the late Arthur Honneger, chose to re- present Emmanuel Chabrier, a late 19th Century composer,
The 1st of guests reads like an International who's who. These were some of those expecte i to attend and the costumes they have chosen.
Prince Guy de Faucigny-
famed Luringe as
painter Plerre-Auguste Renoir.
Монста pretender throne.
Hesse Brazilian newspaper de Chateau- Mondes.
of Villa- Don Miguel de rival of Don Juan, flie Spanish
to
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Going As Bergerac
Composer Henri Sauguet
Cyrano de Bergerac, from the masterpiece
Edmond by Rostand. Paris fashions de- signer Christian Dior as Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, 10th Cen- tury novelist, Academician Jacques de Lacrctelle Alphonse de Lamartine, the famed 19th Century poet and politician.
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As for the Countes de Neatlles, she will receive her guests as "Delle", the heroine of one of the better-known poems by 10th Century poet Maurice Secve-United Press.
She'll Make
Your
Face Look
10 Years
Younger
New York,
study
A famous woman plastic surgeon said women are not seeking the secret of eternal youth-they are happy if they can look just 10 years younger than they are..
to Dr Genta Salcin is a beautiful went
to Berlin woman herself, with blonde hair medicine. piled into a high Pompadour "I want to help people," sho and satiny skin that belles her sald simply. When nver-10 years, Both, she says, enough money she goes to some reneet her Lithuanian heritage, other country and performs not surgical skill or beauty shop plastic surgery operations for remedies.
poor people,
in
she saves
But she is deeply sympathetic women who find it difficult
SOLD A MINK with to accept signs of old age their faces. She does not put
She served as a major with 1944 to U.S. Army from great emphasis on beauty, be the cause she
woman plastie belleves only three 1849, the only things make great individuals surgeon in the Army. "big mind, big soul and good
"I would have character."
be
WRINKLED
been perhaps a very successful woman with much money," she said with a shrug. "I bought mink coat. But I sold it again. to go to South America last year. What is money that it has such cttraction for people?"
Sho has no use for propie .sympathetic
Yet she says: "A woman can as unhappy when she is wrinkled up and too old for her age as when she has a true disigurement. Ice women who who are so burdened....they words when they see an were so beautiful and now they fortunate person
murmur
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un-
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look in the mirror and see puf- "They see a beggar and they ness or wrinkles. It takes ay, 'poor man'," she said. "7 very strong character not to give him a meal and a dollar mind this,"
and then ho isn't poor man for a while."
talk
'MEN ARE VAIN'
United Press,
OS
Such women do not expect- to hear people say, "you look ike a girl of 16," Dr Sakiri
Some Il involves worionen in Sicily 1 Last month he organised pointed out. But if something
day, she predicts, we to improve their will
go to plastic surgeons 35 who inalt on repairing a run-one-day hunger strike of 1,000 can be done
Ashermen and appearances 80 their
friends wo now
how go to dentists. And down highway even though no unemployed
labourers. Then he got 200 constantly say, "you don't begin when it becomes accepted, men The McDonalds know neigh-one had hired them to do 11.
to lvak your age," then they will
repaired ta have facts The highest circles of the jobless day labourers to work on bours think they are odd and
often as women. unsociable, but they won't in Italian Government are wrestling the road, which prompted police are satisaca,
"For a woman of 70 to look. "Men are as valu is women," vito them to vigit because they with the unique incident of unto haul him and 20 others of
only 60.
does wonderful things Dr Sakin said, "but they don't have no small, luxuries such as employment actation sparked
for her," Dr Sakli said..
much."--- about it a bespectacled 81-year-old by a tea-cakes to offer, and the
The Constitution Says Most of Dr Sakin's time is house is too small. It is 12 by writer named Danilo Doct Dolel was put in gaol
spent operating on children and 17 feet. There is room only for
"sedition" and "oairago" after he Whatever the outcome of the adults with serious disfigure- a cook stove, double bed with a
of un-case Dolci may have achieved muuta. Recently she was given feather tick, two benches, encourage a
by a department store tablo, and boxes along the wall employed men to go lo work on one of his goals-Italy has been an award by a
na the "moci unselfish woman which serve as cupboards. a highway at Partinico, a little shocked into awareness of the
in New York city for the scores her 2,000,000 unem With
help, town southweal of Palermo in pight of her
müther's
Mve Dorothy slices the three horses Sicily. They said they hoped played, who
operations she has per- sho rents in winter, cleans the the town would be "shamed" into southern Italy and Slelly.
The writer in expected
Her life
life, which has already bara, cleats the land, cuts har, paying them.
quote a passage from the Italion been suggested as a movie plat constitullon at his trial: "The by one Icading Hollywood pro- repubblic recognises that All duver, has been dedicated to enc citizens have the right 10 goal since she left her home In work."-United Press.
Lithuania at the ago of 15 and
BOWs ontz and alfalfa, milks cows, butchers steers, felis trees and
in het evening hours reads
government agriculturai
phlets.
Hell's Half-Acre
Pain- Today, with Dolci in gol The two women have built a awaiting trial, all of Italy was on the case. with concrete commenting fine new born
floor and plenty of light which Nowspapers headlined it. Many
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Intellectuals ve their volge is valued at more than $10,000. inte Their pions include building up and names
a beef herd and some of the test against Dole's arrest.
Rot
to petitions of pro-
Tho government will
bo
n correspondence school, recalls God two exciting events in her life tero
mortly
in of
formed."
to
"No Smoking" Rule
Leads
To Suleide
Doctor's Warning
STOP: YOU'RE
OFFERING HIM CANCER !
Birmingham. Offering a cigarette to a friend should be considered a social | crime rather than a courtesy, a doctor said recently.
Dr W. H. Bond of the Bir mingham United Hospital told a Rotary Club meeting there was no doubt of the link between Chelmsford. [Mrs Jonen got so franile for a
anck cigarette that
grabbed cigaretlo smoking she
Jung one from another patient's cancer, so there was no courtesy it in offering a shioke to a friend. mouth and puffed at
Dr Bond said
OVEL 1100 greedily. She got a black eye
smoking Britons in shoul in return.
the concentration of cancer producing agents in the
abandoned land on cleared farms erlied on to answer questions which othe
other Reitlera ·vacated
about the treatment accorded years ago.
young woman, who the writer who claims he is An inquest ruled recently that
a "borough of what education the hoy through trying to making
"hell's half out of the
and un- of poverty in the buch, She once carried employment of Partinico.
It Dole want to Partinico in live wolf, thinking home was dead, and recently a crazed 1950 and began writing about trapper tried to break into the the people there. He decided cabin. He was driven away by to do more than wriic, he said, United after wooing children so thin the McDonalds" dogs,
I they looked-ilko săreletons,“
A
Mrs Ethel Marguerite Jonce committed suicide becauso n hospital
took murso
her cigarettes away from her.
husband, Harold. Mrs Jones
wahl his wife had datinble destra" for clarettes. He took some to her when alio was in hosptial for
an
**
minor the TO took
them away from her,"
A few days ago she was found blankoled cities are endangered
hanging from a roller-towel because
in the hospital.
י'
"Sho was desperate for a mog is sometimes equivalent to cigarette when I lost visited 200 cigarettes a day, for a person her" Mr Jones said. United | broathing the polluted
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United Pres
Now Poisen Gas Froof Wood!
Washington. Government. scientists have developed a new type of wooden board that lets clean air through screens out poison gas.
but
It may be useful in building nir raid shelters,
1
Me Richard McArdle, chief of the Agriculture Department's forest service, salt tho board was produced at the forest pro- ducts laboratory at Madison, Wis., with the "co-operation" of the Defence Department,
Ho announced the discovery at a closed henring of a House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Jan. 24. His testimony was made public last week.
For Shelters
"This board has peculiar pro- maid. "It perty," Mr McArdle will admit oxygen, but it will not admit any poisonous fases that we know of, and it will let carbon dioxide go out."
He said that if the board is used to construct air raid shel- ters, it would prove "a effective defence against poison- He said he mude ous gases."
very
this statement on the basis of iests by the agency's laboratory and the Defence Department,
Mr McArdio cited the board
as un example of valuable re- search being done by the la- boratory. He urged approval of
1 department request to increase the laboratory's budget by: $408,000 next year. It had for this a $1,116,820 budget Dscal year--United Press.
COLOUR NO
BAR TO PREFERMENT
Leopoldville, Belgian Congo.
Catholic A coloured Roman bishop will consecrate one of his white brethren for the first time in Belgian Congo history this March 25,
in
Mgr. Alola Bigirumwami, Apostolic vicar of Myundo the Ruanda District will officiate al the sacred consecration of Swiss-born Mgr. Andre Fer- Taudin who was nominated Apostolic vicar of the Kabganyl District last December.
Belgian Church leaders under- ling that this ceremony is an example of the general position Church towards racial the
discrimination.
are
The Church holds that all men equal no matter their race. United Press.
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