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THE CHINA MATE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER (1,7 1958. ~

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World

Those Seconds Of Darkness Eat Into Our Light

BLINK TIME' — 2 HOURS A DAY

Chicago.

An American eye specialist has come out with an amazing calcu lation: we spend a total of between 1, hours to

2 hours ten

day

That

minutes a

blinking!

presupposUN

that

we are awake for 16 hours n day.

The specialist estimates prople apend 3110 14 per cent of their waking hours blinking.

Dr Nowe Wesley, at thority

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high-strung person

night blink as much as 40 per rent of the ame

MEN MORE

I less! blinking, wink- Jog and arseende „i phenomena at the First National Contact Lens Congres

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The averag

oner Every Thre

woar 1.

rum. bal

freenas. The average

£11-A-Week Vicar

Says: Don't

Raise Our Wages

Folkestone.

The Rev. Arthur Cleverly Cawston came home from Evensong to explain how he makes ends meet on £11 14. A week "I suppose," said the 51-year-old vicar of All Souls, Folkestone, thoughtfully, "it's all a matter of marrying the right wife,"

Censored Play For The Queen

THE

London.

BE Queen is to see a censored version

of a play that shocked her grandfather.

Wednesday she visits Fren! company al Madeleine Renaud and her Bar- husband, Jean-Luis wornun

Palace

has a bling rate of once in Ingr

1r Wesley, Vie Persident of the Pine Contact Lera Co., sold the world's fastest blink is probably 3/10 of a second.

The average, he said, is 4/10

of a second.

NATURE'S WAY

"Blinking is nature's prescrip- j Bon I wn and reiving the eye," he said. 1 propels Male)

the cornen."

But baking also can be n

1.

"Bund people with artificial eyes blak at the tennial inter ke old

Dr Wesley sal the Tverage blinker

tears at he produces tale of 1/3 of a drachm an hour, Crying inervases the output 100

cent. per

Except when a person werps, a Latural grene around the eye- ids keps the tears from spill- Ing over.

and yell,

Babies ning scream Dr Wesley sald, bu 12051 them don't shed a tear or blink ungl hey're nine months old.

NIGHT AND DAY

Dr Wesley #aid blinking and crying were natural functions which must be taken into con-

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Theatre, Londren.

The play she will the Queen's own choice-Is "Occupe

d'Amelle"

("Look after Amelie"), the bedroom farve which King George V. called "the hot- fest thing ever anw the stage."

THREE AFFAIRS

CIT

It Concerns Amelie'n three love affairs, and the highlight is a scene where she wakes in astonishment, ** 1 hazy night out in kiontmartre, to find herself in bel with one of the young men,

But it will not happen in London.

Mr

Cawston

Earlier

had shaken the Canterbury Ploce: an

Mr

NIGHT-AND-DAY

FOOD SUPPLY FOR WIVES

New York.

NO TRANSMITTERS BUT EVERY SUNDAY- Freak Broadcast Puts Parson On The Air

London,

Every Sunday evening the people of Billingshurst, Sussex, alt round their radio sets to hear the voice of their Congregational minister. Reception is good. The voice is loud and clear.

The programme is never advertised, there are no transmitters, and the minister, the Roy, Norman Jones, has never broadcast officially,

Yet his sermons are alwayı "pleked up around 275 metres.

The "ghost" broadenst WHE feared again last week on the radio net in the transe. next door to the church.

His wife, Mary, turned up the

1-2-3-

A radio engineer explained that the broadcast is caused by a fault in the amplißer which makes it net as a transmitter.

volume and

and adjusted the tuning 8TH CENTURY

this is the

Reverend Norman Jones aptak-

Ag

from the pulpit of the Trinity Congregational Church."

Two-Mile Range

MANUSCRIPT

Fritzlar.

eighth century

It is a relic of the missionary work cr Irish nut Scottish priests

who helped to bring Christianity to this part of Ger- many.

Sound 'Eye'

Now For

The Blind

Cambridge, Mass.

An d'ectric-eye which converts_light to sound to ald the Blind in locating ob- Jects was unveiled recently.

The audio-vista probe was invented by the late Dr CWTord M. Witcher, who was blled from

mccy.

Dr Witcher. a research

Mr Jones, 44-year-old former London advertising executive, A Franciscan monk efræsifying physicist, was a staff member told me: "I think it must have the monastery briry here has in the sensory alds project at something to do with the found a parchmen; with a Gse-Mariechusetts Ira:ilute of church'a Internal amplifying inscription dating frem the Technology unil his death at system.

the age of 42 last manth. "We have five loudspeakers

The new instrument in- round the walls.

tended for use by blind Jabora- tury technicians, secretaries and other blind people. It is about the size of a large famtain pen and is connected to an entphone like that of a hearing aid. Saint Boniface, Wessex-born When a blind person passes

the Germans," the Instrument over "Apostle of

ubject founded a Benedictine monastery or points It something ho here in 732 A.D. China Mall wants to explore, he hears Special.

sound which varits in pitch ac- cording to the degree of light and strade which meets the in- strument.

This must have been going on for years. 1 didn't know about It until one at my congregation said 'I didn't know you were the radio last going to be on night.'

"I don't think my range is much farther than a couple of miles or so.”

Mrs Hugh Wader, of West Street, said: "M's wonderful. can hear the minister better on my radio than 1 cần in church

Her friend, Misa Jane Bell, said: "I've heard it too. I think it's useful for old people who can't get to church. I hope It continues.

"Per- Mr Jones is doubtful.

he said

WOMAN WILL

DRIVE CAB

Milan.

Linn Canuto, 32, became the first woman in Italy to he

taxi-cab here-United. Press,

The American housewife of the immediate future will be able to buy her food supplies any time of the day the Post Office will object," emcially authorised to drive a or night, including weekends, as a result of automatic outdoor machines. The first of these machines has been installed at Elmwood, New Jersey,

G%

The equipment was installed mille,

Milk And Egga

CEEF,

bread, margarine,

Conference by demanding ho rejection of a wage increase.

an experiment by one of frozen ish, meat, coffee, tea and "I believe that widespread de- America's largest super-market | cooked meats. manda for higher

chains. wages are bringing the nation to mitery and disaster." thundered Cawston. " our duty, we priest of the Church, to be the first to call a ball further increase in wages,"

No Profit

In

By

his rambling. draughty eight-roomed vicarage-it c.89 me £2 a week for at and light Mr Cawsion explained:

"We have in fact let off part of the vioarage as a furnished flat but we are still paying for the conversion which takes all the profit.

Own

In one section of the super- market there are water tanks with live lobsters, trom which shoppers can make their selection, then have it cooked while they Anish shopping.

They may also choose fresh chicken пепт by select 41 v ! aoasted On A Turn- the machines-. ' table.

I was no successful that it is new to be introduced in every Telty and town throughout the country where there are com- pany stores,

"We spend 268. a work for i the lady who comes in for two hours daily. Then my wife and I smoke a litle says 55, a week between us. I um a very keen photographer-at the moment we are producing film strip

of on the activities the Church-say 52, a week."

Their Wages

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Customers can food Hems from

£

and

Gramophone, Radio And

Now TV-But They

Can't Stop Barrel Organs

Rome.

People say the gramophone put Bonafede's father out of the barrel-organ business and that now Bonafede himself is the victim of radio and television.

He paused cheerfully, "Food? Oh, food, Well, I'm sure my wife doesn't spend much more than-say 351. a week on that" At the conference Mr Cowston had added:

know many

However, this of

white-haired man, and he has to know how to a great deal people have

and ruddy faced, 60-year-old play his intrument too, which is money in their pay-packe.s, but

of Rome, Butly an art in self, says Bonafede. many more are struggling to organ-grinder

familles on less than denies . He says it was the In addition he must be able to maintain

music composers who are his read music otherwise he would £10 a week.

"I don't like my parishioners ruin for they give this ancient rot be able to at some of these musical intrument little thought modern tunes into his barrel- being

asked Lo incise iny

write when they

their new organ. salary out of their wages, see the play just as

But the dor.ference adopted catchy tubes.

£800 wage proposals for the

In- ninimum, £25 annual

A crcase for many clergyman, with an alm for a future £850 a year.

The Lord Chamberlain forbide men and women to appear in bed together on

will

lhe

Queen

(the stage.

Otherwise

Paris

saw it, and just ba her grandfather saw 1 48 years Jigo.

Lord The Chaniberlain has not cut a

line,

►

The Doctor Brewed Beer

In His Washing-Machine

London.

Bonafede's seven instrumenta It is difficult to find anyone were the best that money could who knows Bonafede by any buy. A few are small, on le25, other name or where he actually and the others are on wheels, lives in the old Son Lorenzo cach artisically and colourfully quarter of the Eternal City.

days

SEVEN OF 10

This is

designed. All of them can tako 10 tuncy and the pin-studded cylinders have 64 strikes or notes for a wallz and 48 for a But he can be found

most rumba or a tango.

enough pushing his barrel-organ to play the melody of an old along the narrow cobbled ture but not for modern songs, streets In the outskirts, The Bonafede mys. That is why an only reason he

would not be organ-grinder must know how found in the heart of the city to read musle so he can cut is that police put it out of down the refrain carefully to fi

too much trafle.

ber of strikes,

maceration the Ing of con- Just think of it-beer at 2d. a pint; sirong stuff, no bounds to him because there is it into the organ's limited num-

tact lenses. The lenses in so that

tenis con with the come nasty chemicals, and NO TAX.

beneath the lens,

But it could not last, deelded His ellent, the doctor, took a Herr Wilhelm Sohnges, noted horrified Customs and Excise more moderate line-after all, German expert and developer

ho'd drunk all the beer, of the microlens, told the Con-oficials.

gits he had 800 patients who They read about the private had worn their contact lenses brew made by a doctor in his day and night without ever re- wife's washing-machine, in the moving thin for six months, "Houses for Sale" advertise One paient, he said, has ment columns of a newspaper. won them without interruption for two yonts.Unlied Press.

"Modern semi-det, res (1928), bedrooms, 2rec, good b, and k. lino-tlled" they rend,

Atomic Trains In Russia

Moscow. Russia has a dealen for Att

1

ANOTHER BONAFEDE

What happens la a bet pas-

critic's car, but it i Acar enough and the people do not the old really mind. It is songs, the colour, the tradition, and the personality of the organ-grinder that people liko anyway, Bonafede says, something new just onco awhile,

with

Bonatede is The standard- bearer of Rome's barrel-organ business. There arc only 10 licensed instruments and Bona- "There wasn't a drop in, the lede holds seven of them. The ticcio (nice mes) for a music

trained and who afterwards cr house when the official called," other three are held by men he he chuckled. "I'd been away bought second hand organs and from home for about six weeks set up in competition. But the and I was just about to brew maestro shrugs for the business up agala.

Is not easy and there are lots of tricks of the trade these com- 'Very Civil

petitors do not know.

Competition doca not "The inspector was very civil

last Then "Garden with shed in and explained his head office very long,

Donatede, says.

There should be the tradi- which rosidont psychiatrist had ordered the inquiry. though there is always someone

monkey which health matures thu excellent beer he Fortunately I took legal advice who comes along and trics. There tional"

know authorities forbid -- and organ- brews in electric clothes bollor," before I started making beer, are ancient

and was told I was not breaking about. And an organ-grinder grinders should be allowed to

has to contend with licenses, go into the centre of the city at. the law.

taxes, difference of opinion with least two or three times police, and the payment of month so that other people cán

hear. and sec them, "days" royalties to composers.

Bonafode, becauso everbody loves an organ-grinder,

'Amazed'

ntomic locomotive, Moscow That appeared on a Sunday, Radio announced, but it is The next morning, an Excise in too big for normal tracks even spector called at the doctor's

in Russia where they are extra house in South East London and

asked for a samplo pint.

wide,

"I make it in the washing machine have to be careful to et rid of any taste of soap- barrel. All my pals love it, but leave it to ferment In a my wita dislikes it,"

and

richts to

MUST READ MUSIC

"At the moment Bonafede training a young men, who, called Bonatedo and, who maestro hoper will succeed him Mean Bolognar Now every factory has in the business. There

closed down and there are no many guesses but no one really experts around to repair those knows if this young man ly His which existexcept Bonbrode LODOT has, Just then the name Bö, an organ-grinder today so that Rom) will continue has to be a business man, repair have a Bonafeds organ-

Fifty years ago" barrel-organs Soviet engineers have.com- "I was amazed," kald: the The Customs and Excise were made in several talla picted plans. for an 8,000 hp atomic unit, designed to run on cotato ugent Mr Roy Brooks, Department are to give the cities such as Rome, Naples and

nine-foot wide track, the of Gloucester Road, Kensington, doctor a final, ruling,

while, he has burpended opera- broadcitt anld, St

***** last night, »` The atomic locorhotive, will "I only mentioned the beer tions run 1,000 miles on an bunch of for joko- diday's think dit "To brow in the meantime ful, the broadenst hddod would

would be foolhardy, ne sald Ualled Pros,

last night,

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