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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, ⠀ MARCH- :1, 1, 1957.

THE BATTLE OF THE WAIST-LINE--AND ONE MAN'S WAY OF DEALING WITH_IT

William Hickey How will YOU look on the

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COLUMN

Margaret Rowe, 20-year-old Miss England of

1955, a beautiful brunette who came nearer to winning the Miss Universe competition than any British girl, restored my faith in human nature the other day.

In the past two years she has travelled all over the world, modelling and on film engagements. She has been photographed at gulas in Monte Carlo, her name has been Now she is linked romantically with several film stars. getting married to the man she met before all this started.

He is travel agent Freddie Kuhn, who has remained quietly in the background for the past two years. has always been my greatest friend," she "Glamour is not marriage, you know."

"He

told

me.

Three girls in the news

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She was first Miss Payne, then Mrs Fleming. Now, although she has not remarried, she calls herself Mrs Foulkes.

Even her former husband, Commander Harvey Fleming, R.N., who is stationed at Portsmouth, had no

idea why when I asked him last week.

"As a matter of fact, I didn't realise 'Mrs Foulkes' was my ex-wife until I saw her picture in the paper. last saw her in 1950 and we were divorced in 1953," he said.

Wealthy Englishwoman Mrs Munian Foulges, whose name has been linked with that of Lieutenant-Commander Michael Parker, walka down a Rome street. Commander Parker resigned as private secretary to the Duke Edinburgh recently after it had been announced that he and his wife were separated,

Three angles on marriage

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of

Here is Elizabeth Taylor, big-eyed, big-brimmed, small-crowned on her third headline honeymoon, this time at Acapulco in Mexico,

She is saying she may give up film acting entirely

and concentrate on being Mike Todd's wife.

In fact, with a heavenly smile, she is saying that she

is now just Mrs Mike Todd.

Knowing that tempestuous, dynamic man I should think she has taken on quite a full-time job.

They are staying in Mexico for three weeks - a long

time for Todd to stay in any one place.

He thinks nothing of going from London to Paris for a cocktail and leaving Madrid for New York just to have dinner with a friend.

beach this summer?

I

T is a splendid thing to be fit. I have noticed the difference ever since I got involved in physical training....man's latest craze in his battle with his waist line.

On both sides of the AL- lantic and all over Europe gymnasin are springing up wherever there is room to swing a skipping.rope. I have been finding out why.

After a mere six lessons folk Istand to ane side as I pass them

ROBIN NICHOLAS

They hurry to open doors, to expansive;

when breath

give precedence at every corner. shorter than petrol, and the

song-birds grow nick-name

We go for a gentle trot,...

for a

This is probably due not en morning much to a minute expansion of apoplectic trying to make them out of granite Amy chest as to the fact that I selves heard over the smoker's hear.

now have a pronounced imp. cough.

First, though, this niness fod?

who

storted

Vital age

Since the war man has been Testntful of this and has struggled unsuccessfully with ono diet eraze after another.

In every desk there is a printed sheet prescribing lean meat and sugaricas tea; in evory diary

is a note on the virtuos man.... slimming

ot three bananas and a pint of milk,

It applies only to that moat important

of age [between 35 and 50 when the

lesh is weak and the tummy

She

Every crank who has ever heard of a protein has tortured hls fellows with green salads and

Even I invented a saccharine.

diet of smoked salmon and gin which was sneered at from the calorie-conscious heights of the Woman's Page.

But all that is over now, In these, the first months of 1957, dieticians are at a discount. The skipping-rope la supreme.

Men who spent the whole war In employing the national fair for enterprise, by avoiding P.T. instructors, are now paying cash for the services of civilians.

And the habit is catching on Inst. Let one man boost in his club of finding a muscle in his calf and a queue of his friends rush out shopping for shorts and plimsols.

What is it like for a normally unhealthy male to present him- self at a gymuslum?

It is alarming. There is a strong almosphere of the arena. The whole place is as redolent of expended effort as a power house.

And the glimpse through the changing-room doorway of a white-sweatered Instructor illy skipping 200 Uimes or so makes you feel tired even as you bend to unloce your shoes,

Mr Walter Fullwood is my trainer. A former Derbyshire county cricketer, they call him "Blossom." A

unlikely

more

By the Rev. Frank Martin

Dreaded Her Parents

HE lay limply in bed, her pale frightened face framed on the

pillow by dark hair.

I remember it well. It was (two in the morning, and the family doctor had just dragged her back slowly, miraculously from tho

borders of death.

Iris was 17. She had nearly killed herself attempting 10 bring on a miscarriage. For she

wedding ring. ceremony,

paid for the

That marriage lasted a month. Of the two, I think Mz Thomas was right.

"Shot-gun" weddings are out of date. Even "puppy love" results in a child, why must two unsuited people be bound together for itt?

Sinned

And why must we be so anxious to punish?

Need wo punish the mother? She has simmed. But not

was too young to live with fear older people, cynically and concentment and shame. cruelly.

And she 'dreaded hen prim

ke and

More often than not there is

respectable parents too much to love and innocence in her alt- condo in them.

ning. And what punishment that

1 AM TELLING THE STORY we can devise can be greater BECAUSE IT IS THE STORY than her loneliness and sorrow OF THOUSANDS.

But still our attitude is either

of bleak, unpitying disapproval

and humiliation?

Need we purilish the child? How wicked is a new-born or candy loas sentimentality:

baby

How much less worthy of Some people have condemned delight ad gratitude de a child

male?

.

our

Mr. Fred Thomas, of Hampstead, because you can label it illegiti London, for not allowing his 17- year-old, daughter Jacqueline to marry the man whose child she is 'expecting,

But according to notlona, mother and child are gulity. And the guilty must be

Too Young made to suferi

“One day ...“ I visited a home

He said she was still too where unmarrlett mothers go to young to know her own mind have their babies. It is staffed And when Jackie naked the by kindly, compassionate magistrates for periton to women. It is bright and chee- | marry, they· commemlod frer ful

for acting in her best AND

IT DISGRACES ALL OF US.

.

L

Cather Interesta

But a man I know wa DO For it exists-bbcause there determined that his daughter nro: still mang parents who turn should marry, so attre she was thain daugtrieda “out when they In Dove, that be bought the become grownfant,

• How pleased with yourself will you feel when you go on the beach this 'summer? In many homes, the head of the family is already feeling anxious about an expanding waist line, Can he do anything about it without going on a diet? He can. This article explains how.

Suddenly he hit me in the bo snorted, "not that stuff. stomach, "That," he marloth, Have some boer,"

"is your diaphragmn. It should

be under your ribs. You are Things have changed since.

I oven And breathing going to be a horrible sight in a

couple of years If you don't now. watch out."

restful

Three hours a week and my 'walst has narrowed, my chest broadened and...it i He told me to Be down and concentrate,.......even my horribla. relax. A capit enlculation that diaphragm pops into place. my half-hour must be nearly up and that a good rest would prob ably finish it, filled the room with sunshine...

man hacked and I am astonished that the ing like an exclled puppy until

Little did I know. There I was on my back pant- I have yet to Zoo had no reports of the

Blossom caught me at it. escape of a remarkable animal "Breathe," he ordered. "Haven't with two flat feet.

On

He is kind.....

+

at first.

Soon fixed

cino ball as a missile and the I have learned to use a medi-

barman has mastered the knack of switching my gin for beer when Blossom appears.

A boast.....

In the medicine cupboard instead of sleeping

pills there of

you ever learned to breathe your loco," commanded properly?" Blossom. If I had been able to I can now But I never is embrocation; instead speck I would have told him But he is kind. That first very firmly

having imagined what horror it can be aspirin, there is embrocation; [ Was

instead of bismuth, there night he said; "We'll take it trouble staying on my text, lot

is....embrocation. very easily at first.....just half alone any nominated part of an hour at a time until we get them. But all agony comes to some life in you. Let's go for an end. After we had run what I thought was a couple of miles a gentle trot."

At that time I calculated that on my part, (and my instructor aald was 440 my legs were seized up. I prob it sounds like boasting.. yards) we got back to the gym. ably had a slipped disc and I did six hand presses the other

It is not hard to visualise the roorat ícata of muffled-up business men returning home

My smoking has been cut down without any effort at all i

And...........I know but

I had a vague red haze before something awful was bappen- day. that winter's night as through my eyes. Blossom wes very ing to my stomach. But my arma If you want to try you will were still in their good old puny have to be checked by your 'Î stole.

doctor first....ali instructors Blossom soon fixed that. He insist on that, produced a medicine bali.

the darkness came the soft pit decent about it. "I'm sorry I

pat of Blossom's shoes and the took you so far," he said.

realise anyone of Just didn't heavy thud, thud of mine.

Add to that a strange wheez- your age could be so unfit. Ing I happened to be making, frightening, isn't it?"

CUMMINGS ALWAYS HAD

COMPLETE CONFIDENCE

IN

THE PROFESSIONS

UNTIL HE MET SOCIALLY

THE MEDICAL MAX

"And then, hal hal we found that we'd sewn up the scissors and a tourniquet inside him!"

THE ARCHITECT

"And it was only when they were laying the carpets that we dis covered the main draina hain's been put in .......”

THE POLITICIAN

*.. i the vital letter went, by mistake, in the. Foreign. Secretary's. trousers: pockất to the dry cleaners... general mobilisatien followed!!!!

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THE LAWYER

"Speaking as a friend and not as a profes slonai man,old boy, junt keep well out of a lasu- axit-even if you dra fifty times in the right."

THE AIRLINE MAN

"Why, I was on that run for two years—now

I always go by train,”

It's

strenuous.

And you ned

I don't really remember the not worry about it being too. hot shower, the cold shower, or even gelling on the massage

Fees vary from half a crown- table, I really came round is to about Ss. a session, There Blossom was slapping the backs are gymnasio that look like of my legs and saying sadly, sheds and others like clubs.......... "Haven't you ever WALKED they are all as good. And if Another couple of months and there isn't one near you now you would look like a tadpolo."

It was then that we went for

a drink,

What a sight that saloon bur was. Full of pasty-faced folk- pasty and flabby. But even then I made another mistake. I ordered a gin. Blossom looked really cross. "I siki a drink,"

I'm prepared to bet there will be one soon.

One last thing that limp of mine. I tripped over a skipping- rope.

.

Well....I thought it was a game for little girls in pigtails.

Anyway, Blossom can't get. me out trotting for a while.

Museum Displays Guns of Teenagers

New York.

THE

THE dignified American Museum of Natural History has a new, exhibition-a collection of zip guns, sling nhots, knives and lead clubs taken from teenage trouble. makers in recent months. All the "weapons" shown were used by mischievous youths within the museum itself.

The object of the exhibit is to dramatiso the museum's need for increasing its present force of 118 attendants Respon- sible for watching 13 scres of exhibit space.

were children and cents,

adoles-

Several go to hospital.

Items in the collection are "If only one child in a a home-made 22 calibre pistol | thousand la 'a bad egg, wo get which looks as though it was 1,200 bad. eggs a year. We turned out in a factory and must have more attendants to powerful alingaho's that dia- prevent not only damage but charge largo ball bearings.

Glass broken

It was such a sling that put

a hole and large crack through

Injury

to visitors, "Soveral

people recently have suffered Injuries that have required, hospital treatment.”

Another famous museum has also asked for more protection.

a prized 12 by 201t pan of It is the Metropolitan Museum

glass covering a life-like group of Art, which reported it had of marsh birds in flight,

been

vandaged by outbreaks of "Misbehaviour,

especially vas

"Someone," said Dr. James violence by teenagers, has been Rorimer, the director, dropped, increasing rapidly lately," sald Dr Albert Parr, director of the paper into an ancient Egyptian mummy case and set fire to it We put out the blare before- "We had 2,000,000 visitors more than minor damage was in 1950, of whom 60 per cent done."

museum.

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