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THE CHINA MAIL

SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1957.

Stories from ATI

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World

Life With The English-By US Wives

DON'T FORGET YOUR BROOM, GIRLS WARNED

London.

AMERICAN Air Force wives in Britain have

produced a guide book on life among the natives for girls coming out from the US. Its message: "Bring everything-except the kitchen. stove."

From the pooled experience of 150 women at Fairford, Gloucestershire, comes this advice on the home; BRING your kitchen equipment down to the last measuring spoon--weights and measures are different. Bring an American cook- hook and an American broom,

THE US WIFE AS EMMWOOD

SEES. HER..

Hiss And..

THE ROBOT BALLERINA GETS MAD

The

London

British television robot debut of a French ballerina was delayed in- definitely because "She" zols angry if anyone In the audience hisses her performance.

B

The Empiro News ported here that the robot, created by Farls sculptor, Nicholas Schaeffer, has an cicatronic brain and dance to any music, learn the choreography of any ballet, and even improvisé à danos, when ́htaring a picce of musis for the first

time.

She has one fault, the Newspaper sald. She stops dancing and advances with all the caneo of her 2,000- pound weight when sho hears a person hita at her. -United Presm

A washing machine is a must. and an electric drier is very necessary-clothes cmnot always be dried out of doors,

.No luxury

BRING on electric blanket- English bedrooms are usually nheated. And a table lamp they rarely have adequate read- ing light.

BRING your spring mattress too those provided In rented houres are not usually the type you are accustomed to.

The book warzis:

Expect cold, damp weather. "You'li

live

in fur-lined boots"-cramped houses with no luxury conservative clother and erogested roads.

Bul It promises wonderful people heaitiful gardenin and gay pageantry.

And it urges a spirit of tolerance

when unaccustomed luxuries cannot be found.

Expensive

Its pointers in FASHION: British formal and cocktail dresses are lovojy but expensive. Bring them but avoid taffeta and faille or the British dry cleaners will ruin them.

Nylons are expensive and in- ferlor in cut and ft. Sweaters and skiria or slacks are general wear for American women. I England.

THREE'S A CROWD.....SCAT!!

The most popular additions to the Copenhagen Zoo are three baby Uger cubs—a lion cub and a leopard cub. Visitors spend many hours watching their actions for they are all in one den... for the time being. A small black dog thought he would 'investigato-and have a bit of fun with the cuba. The cubs thought otherwise and soon chased him out of the den.,

-Keystone Ploture,

MAN COLLECTED

HUNDREDS OF

EGGS FOR PROFIT

London.

THE most persistent birdnester of them all, 74-year-old William Cottrell, will fit well with the conserva- heard a magistrate say of his hobby:

Most of the clothes you bring |

Ive English style.

Woollen dresses and suits are

"It is a miserable picture of eggs and were willing to barter cheaper and you can wear a single-minded greed und suit all year round-te emale centrated selfishness."

call toys for them,

is so cold and damp.

For children, it says, the best winter wear #annel-Khed jeans "unobtainable in Britain."

Not so bad

The book has been compiled by Aiman First-Class Bill Smith, who directs the camp information servico. Similar

bases,

The old man who never tired of a boy's bobby turned birineslfig into business sido-ins.

POUNDS EACH

2

That Low-Down Bit Of Vittle-The Hot Dog

AMERICANS TO EAT 80,000 MILES OF THEM THIS YEAR

By DOC QUIGG

New York.

Here we are brimful of summertime, and I am being badgered by the hot dog people about this being national hot dog month and why don't I do something about it?

Certainly I will do something about it. The hot dog is a mean, low-down bit of vittle without a speck of character, moral fibre, imagination,- beauty, responsibility, architectural soundness, hormonal integrity, or national consciousness.

This poor man's schnitzel has there's a vold in the stomach insidiously worked lip way and you bite into ont of the bared from within, as it were things, the faste buds. flash a into zuch eminence in this two-word message: HOT DOG! country that it seems

un-United Press. patriolle nowadays to talk about Amerien without mentioning Yot, wherefore is it

hot

dors. American?

In character? Nay, not a bit

INSPECTOR

of it. There, is no independent CALLS

of, spirit in the hot dog, no Personal bite of conviction privately arrived at. Indeed, if it were not for a superficial audacity provided by a foreign overlay of mustard, the hot dog would be almost, vegetable in It's impact.

REMARKABLE TALENT

all

As an outdoor companion to man in this season, the hot dog shows a rarkable talent for geiling into trouble. What bappens to it-at-the-beatby1t gela clogged with sand.

At ball games? Drips

mustard over you during tense moments At picnics Draws ants.

Indeed, the welner and the bu arc wedded that dileticharles generally are clined to define "hot dog" as a Package denta healed frank-

in-

ure placed in a spilt roll, The World Company's Welster adds a couple of other in-

Vejlent:

"Often served with mustard, catsup, etc."

The

Merriam abridged Webster goes a step Company's

further, leaving the morsel in So William Cottrell collected the mouth but assigning it a more eggs. He became a dealer.jectionally to express surprise new role: Also used inter-

He spent all his te in or approval." Chard and, until the. day, went out most days searching his boyhood haunts on the nearby moor. Hla collection-hundreds

other

supplies Last week he was fined £100 in nearly every room. of his house-was swelled by

from #ghthouse keepers and estate workers.

books are belog issued at other with £13 costs for possessing Most American wives and for sale thousands of curs of

Only his the first six months in England rure or wild birds. the worst," says Airman Smith. 960 saved him from prisol, They miss their larger sold Chord, Somerset, magi- homes, their household iuxuries strate, Mr Kenneth Macassey.

and the weather.

"But when they settle down they find that England is not such a and place after all.

"They love antiques and old furniture and historical things. They like pageantry and they ull want to meet the Queen."

They like

Here are some of the likes and dislikes the American

wivca

talked about.

•

Mrs Gloria Yeomans, wife

The hobby began when as a buy of eight he climbed a tree after his first egg. He found his friends were covious of his

THE LONG LINE

of a master-sergeant at Fairford A

-two years in Britain:

"Your people are so friendlyfornian

CALLS ON DUCK RACE NIGHT...

A

MAN

London..

from the

RSPCA turned up for a "duck race" the other night....and the event nearly had to be called off..

When Inspector. 5. Tynan

was

spotted arhʊng the crowds 'in the tiny Berkshire village of Crove, all the competitors dropped out.

Organisers rushed about "in

last-minute attempt to fini people who would chase ducks down a stream for the 200- year-dki race.

They found live men and boya, And the race went on. wildz grim-faced Inspector Tynan making notes for a report, to his London headquarters.

The fest duck

'Nothing cruel'

Ove

was put in the water. It paddled desperately

the to get away from pursuers. Leonard

24, agod grabbed the duck to win the Face. His price; the duck. He said: "I don't care about the

RSPCA man. There is nothing cruel in this game. It is good 11xz I can't see why they should want to stop 1,"

NATIONAL BINGE ·

The greatest

Skinner, public con- centration on hot dogs, accord- oring to the industry, is between Memorial Day and Labour Day. The absolute pealt period of hot dog champing-amounting practically to a national binge- Is the Fourth of July holiday. Some eggs he sold for Od. At the raje we're going, this each, others brought in several year Americans will eat ten pounds each. *

billon, one hundred and mitlion (10,101,000,000) hal But his egg-dealing ended dogs, which, if linked end to when the Royal Society for

ed, would stretch from here to the Protection Birds saw the moon nearly three and a one of his advertisements. The half times-200,000 miles of shes that might have been mlinchery hipposed totalled £14,000.

ACT OF 1954

He pleaded guilty to possess Ing for sale 2,002 eggs of wild Kenningbill. blids of species nested in the 76-year-old Cali- British Isles in a wild state. an-selling 12 eggs of wild birds, and proudly

-they're wonderful. The gardens nounced he'd succeeded to possessing for sale 94 birda

species.

are so well-kept and full of tracing his ancestors backed which DS were rare flowers, Your laundry--with to 1660 within a week.

four young children it's

Ufe-saver."

The eggs are protected by an

Mr Yvonne Higginson, wife George H. Morley, of Long Act of 1954,

Beach, Calif, arrived in England of a technical sergeant:

"British dry cleaners Inyari- to search ancient records for ably send back your clothes news of his ancestora. Ho sald with, buttons missing, and you he'd traced the family time back connof match the old onės, to 3600 and might be able to go

Another G.I. wife: Why | still further. - don't your butchers and fish- mangers put things in à ́tridge

Mortay's sandtather emigrated instead of the window? IFA to the United Sluks. In 1070,- not hygiene.”

United Press.

The magistrate said: "This is one of the most serious cases of defiance of the law which this court has over considered.

"It mattered not to you that the ild bird population of this country should be denuded pro- vided you could take your cut out of the proceedia.”

Millionaire Gets A Foot On The 'Keep-Out' Island

ILLIONAIRE

MT

London,

Alt John Ellerman kas at last found bla ideal rotspot-an laland fall of rate.

For rate ate Bir John's hobby. House ladled indents fur Teams, written dirge volumês about them.

Now to win son kiềm a icture on one -pt, Bellain's strangers balanda.

He has riod" à ortlage from.

isanham Christie, "Queen" 'of | Brownana Bland, Poole Har- brosur, orde

Die chatice to study mats in] They told ġie Johnt Mrs Christe their natural shirunding.

Bp wanted the 880-acre island

to himself—but would.' 'Ma Chrizilo sell?

will NOT sell.

let a cottage.

But she to

So he took the cottage. There Bir he will live simply with Lady Ellerman, formerly the artist Esther de Sola

Money wat Do Bandions.

John, la reputedly the richtal" man in Irifšin,

Slope 1987; when Mas Christi

for £125,000, bought **!! Brewzros Island has been strangers. she made 14 are an animal diascinary. Bloco são mart) | 1e whe Tere à 40,000,000 by his Into the 38-bedroom castle, Gattrar în 1912 and wind in-

Yestment peponi,and : ? Industry

· hot rytui s'meibt has thes

karmed at Brownend,

- la why, it is overrun,

hak

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Among his netshbones, will ha XENG Chrialo's 'nitio servanti "who," Hure" "the ́kland only with her, permission, and “by

onc

This comes, to 00.1 hot dogs per person in the United States, a gain of 3.1 over last year. Why do we do it? Is the hot dog habit forming? No. Ther is only onc TC3500, When'

Mr

G. Knight one of the organisers, sald: "The RSPCA inspector has causet us a lot of trouble. He nearly ruined the race tonight, "Competions wouldn't take part because they were frightened of the publicity and the possi- bility of being summoned "for cruelty."

He added:

"There is nothing cruel in duck racing, If the RSPCA want to take legal action against us they can do so. We will fight them all the way."

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