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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1958.

Interesting

News

Stories From

Canadian Children

O'FTAWA.

CANADIAN parents wels the best with that inton were takl last week that their logs" and "television torso" from sitting around and watching too much TV.

Lloyd Percival, director of Toronto Sports College, made a survey of physical fitness of 300 schoolchildren aged between six and 12 in the well-to-do suburb of Don Mills.

He found them suffering from a flabby condition known as

"elevision lega." It was now possible, he had found, for children not to have

to move out of the house to enjoy athletica. They merely had to go down to their recreation rooms, and throwing darts at a board had taken the place of hockey, baseball, and football.

Afflicted

The Paris OT

With

World

'TV

Legs'

Race Of Lounge Lizards' The lack of exercise has brought on a deterioration of the

arin and shoulder

Parents must share the blame with TV for the flabby "They do not even have to got out of their ears to lift the garage doors any more," says Purdy. "An electronic davice does it for them."

condition of their children's heads and muscles.

Farents were simply too lazy to get up off their own television chairs and shoo the children out of. the house on to the hockey rink and football field. The whole nation, he felt, had been mesmerised by

American television.

Donald Purdy, supervisor of physical training for Ottawa public schools, making a quick sample examination of some of the 20,000 students in the Canadian capital, found his pupils had "television torso." The students were in such poor shape they were unable to do the simple exercise of press-ups-flat, face-down on the floor, rigid body raised by the arms alone.

THE BLACK Be your own

DOMINOES' SECRET IS BETRAYED

IT

London.

London

[AVE you sometimes

HAV

He noted that they could even change their television channels by pressing a button on the arm of their lounge chair. Television was turning Canadian children ́ into a race of

"tounge lizards." They no longer went to the playing fields for hockey or football, but spent their time following the American- style cowboy Westorns on television.

"Things get softer and easier for them every day," says Purdy. Their heads get softer and their muscles flabbler,"

Met. man HOUSEWIFE'S

wished you could by DAVID BOWEN,

forecast the weather for

a few days ahead? It's

not so difficult.

Not a word to the "Mel" Offee, but after 10 years of forecasting by radar and other costly machines, WO And that the humble barometer was to be. Oxford's is the best of all. It never goes

well, hardly ever," biggest hoax for wrong.

The thing is to treat it with years. More than 4001 respect. I tap it (before read- invitations were sent ing) ever so gently. out.

The idea was that the quests would not know that the hall for their party had already been booked for the usual weekly old folks whist drive.

"Come masked," said the Invitation signed The Black Dominoes."

At 8.30 p.m. last week 200 under-graduates and their giri Irlends arrived at

liny the Alfred Street ryndíssium,

MIX-UP

Bul the carefully guarded secret was given away, Some. one phoned the police, End "Black Dominoes" hopes of a nix-up between whist players

end party-goers were folled.

The police were already there. Men and girls swarmed round the doors shouting "Where is the party?" They waved hand-

writter Invitation cards,

Indice the hall old carded on with their whist.

folks

The door was barred from the inside. A burly police sergeant stood on the culside.

Then

notice

*Thing's became troublesome.

A mysterious appeared and the situation was saved. The "Black 'Dominoes" and second thoughts.

ON, ON, ON "On to Christ Church College," sald the natlee. The crowd stampeded there to receive an- other message! "On to Oriel,"

Then on a Baliol, Magdalen,

to St Margaret's Church

and finally the crowd crocodiled

Hall

in north Oxford.

There the doors were

open.

the lights blazing and inside the

drinks were waiting.

A young man in a block mask Fald: "We Just had to have a

parly in proper

case an emergency arose."

One of the organisers, Miss Willow Morel, z0-year-old art student, said: "It was just our idea of a joke. We get up to all sorts of pranks in art Echools, you know."

Many of us today do a bit more than just read the dial.

At the back of our minds we OF have a pretty shrewd iden

of the what the movement needle means in terms of local weather events.

I know, 100, that we toppers' like to compare noles, so here 13 the Bowen Barometer Guide:-

Prolonged stow Fall (Rain and

wind).

CINDERELLA WAS

F. R. Met. S.

Quick fall (Gale soon).

-inch rise (or more) in 12 hours from "Law" (Remain. ing stormy).

Pallence is the only thing here, for provided the rise con- tinues (and it probably will) fine, warm, sunny wearther will eventually replace the chill and cold. But it may take at least two days to materialise.

Did you know that a leech makes a good barometer? You simply put one in a jar, partly weather in winter, but if it has, Alled with water,

If the leech remains at previously boon very cold the inilder weather might well take bottom,

A

HARDEST JOB: BED-MAKING

London, housewife's hardest. job is making beds, a doctor reported.

and

the Dr R. Passmore said In an

in expect fine or caim article

the publication the form of snow-followed by weather. Betoro a change ap- "Family Doctor" that a research Scotland, in Glasgow. rain if the glass continues to proaches it will give up to 24 team Prolonged rise from 'Low" fall.

hours' notice by rising gradually learned about it by fitting men (Recoming seitled: cold in You have heard, of course, of to the top.

and women with masks wluter; fixe in summer). the old nauticat saying: "First

meters to count the heat units Hlah and steady (Cold, withrine after Low

foretel's a

expended on houtc:old jobs.

The researchers This is often

found that for risk in winter. Fine and stronger blow." wann in summer),

true. A sudden rise is never

bed-making took 4 units per Slow fall from "High" (Less to be trusted,

minute, dusting 3% and cook- Milder in winter, rettled.

Mistakes are easier to make

ing just over two units. cooler in summer),

when the glass is moderately

喘 LESS ENERGY Needle moving jerkity (Very high than when E is ailing.

unsettled).

And the danger is greatest in Quick

"ce - saw" motion the spring than at any other (Gales, sunshine, then more time.. Example: It is raining gules).

like mad there is a cold south- cast wind....and yet barometer keeps rising.

A word about "Slow fol from High." It is a sign of milder

Robin Hood'

If the storm is approaching rapidly, the leech will riso quickly and become.very rest- less, During thundery weather it will be even more restless and remain out of the water. If it rises during a spell of caster- ly winds, expect gales and, in winter, snow as well.

Simple, isn't it? But I think I shall make do myself with my own "oneroid." It can carry cleaned or the on without being

MISTREATED Ends Up In The

Wakafioid.

The story of a modern- day Cinderella-without the romantic anding came to light In a magistrates court here.

Mrs Doris Box was hold for trial on charges of mia- treating her 12-year-old adopted daughter, Rosaleen Robinzon, the Cinderella

of the case.

Vernon Way, presenting the case for the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Bald Mrx Box's other 12-year- old daughter war being brought up "like a lady," but Rosaican was treated as a "drudge."

the She was given all shares to do around the house, complets with rigid timetable of duties beginning at 7.15 a.m. Sho was given "swill" to eat,

Way sald. She stole A oookie because the WAS

which hungry, for Box burned her with poker United Press.

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MTR

A

What's her GUIDE-DOG

blank 10/-

note worth?

London.

SAVES

MASTER

Braunwaldk

A

Guardhouse

London.

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy soldier who lived like Robin Hood, roaming a Buckingham shire beauty spot with a bow and arrows, sat sadly in an Aldershot guardroom last week.

And in a hide-out of inter-conditionally discharged for 12 woven ferns, leaves and twigs, months. under an 8it. juniper tree at Burnham kitten.

Beeches,

sat

still a prisoner But he was a sad

last week, in the guardroom of Aldershot's

Barracks,

-

Malta

That hide-out was the "nature waiting to face his commanding boy" home of Howard Walton, officer for being absent without

of the Royal Engineers, for leave three nights. The diten he called Cutie was the friend he

As he sat behind bars he talk-

found when he ran away from ed of his wild life. life."

fed.

What the policeman

saw!

By JOHN WEAVER

London.

ARTIST'S

(35-22-34) was

model Venables

posing

nude as a statue in an fattic studio high above Soho last week when there came a tapping at the window.

At the window was the red, red face of a young policeman

Twenty-one-year-old Maureen and groped for a blue cloth nearly tell off her pedestal.

WHAT THE HECK!

Artist Dick Blyth dropped his sketching pencil and shouted: "What the heck!"

The policeman said politely; "Sorry to trouble you-but can "I just felt Bike getting away I get into the next room?" from it áll," he said. "I have A pauso, then he suffled Wanderers in the woods who been practising with my bow and along the six-inch window ledge spotted the figure in the green arrow in the regiment's archery | 5051. above Soho Square. linen suit shooting arrows at wood pigeons always saw the club and I wanted to see if I

kitten with him.

It crept through the 2ft.-wide dour of his hide-out at night and slept in the Army uniform folded in a corner,

In Court

could live on my gldl

"Every day, and sometimes at night, I went hunting. But I never shot anything. I never got near enough. I saw two pigeons and sume partridges and Bred, but my arrows dropped short and the birds flew away.

who

Jegn Straker founded the Visual Arts Club, opened the window in the next room and in dimbed the police- man.

SOITY.

sit," he apologised I am looking gain. thief."

ON THE TRAIL ·

for

A

"I took a lot of care with my He explained that he was un

Bello the guide-dog is only a But last week the uniform hut," he said. "It was cold at the trail of a raldes at a wine [RS_ Jean Smallwood, the credit for saving his mas- How and he he stood in the High the end it was only hurmer that trall led past that window.

novice at hts trade but he took was gone it was back on young night but I never felt li. In shop six doors away. And the MRS

a 30-year-old house-ter in an avalanche

Wycombe magistrates' court made me quit.”

Zimbuchl out.

Dr Passmore said house-work Than energy took much less

of furm such jobs as mining wark, but it made them just as tired and frustrated,

for He also put in a plug Scotsmen. He said they used as much energy washing dishes as their wives did dusting/Unlied Press.

Artista and 'models helped the polleeman search the building, but no one was foun

Redhead. Maureen said: "He Σ Naturally did startle me. couldn't go to the window. There "It was uncanny," said keeper was a deadly stizone when he "He came to shone his torch on his heimet."

Paul Zumbuchi, 23, took Ballocharged with stealing £10 and That hide-out was found on wife, has a 10s. note she along when he went climbing a watch from a house,

Sunday by 12-year-old David thinks is worth thon-with Peter Dal-Tin, 30. A sud-

kept watch den avalanche buried all three The court was told how he Arnett and police

on it. sands of pounds. The but Bello, struggling free, dug used the money to buy arrows for the Army-issue bow he took reverse side is blank,

Further flurries of snow drove with him when he ran away Thomas Shrubb She has already refused £500 them from the mountainside be-after compassionate lave-leave within 40 yards of where wo Mr Birakor Kald: "He told for it.

fore they could and Dal-in granted because his brother had were hiding then behaved like a Mrs Smallwood, an hydraulic Bello led

back onto tried to kill himself.

dees which conses something is ze he did that to make it clear engineer's wife who lives at the mountain 10 buying

wrong. He disappeared into the who he was and that he wasn't

just peeping. Pväikell, Carnarvonshire, got the body down after ghetors

Howard, whose mother is dead forest again." nola at the local bank when she said there was no hope of find- [and whose father" will have Els adventure ended when he

nothing to do with him, was gave himself up to the police.

cashed a cheque for £5 10s.

The cashier handed her seven 10s, notes with consccutive perial numbers-face upwards, -

She spotted the blank-sided nated as she was harding It, to the butcher. So did the butcher. Í PUT IT BACK

"But I was still clutching" it," said Mrs Smallwood, “I put it back in my handbag,"

The Smallwoods took the note to a London dealer, who offered

£300 for it.

"So our freak ten bob is now back in the bank for safe keep- ing," said airs Smallwood, "I am “sitting tight--and hoping.”**

BUT Bank of England spokesman described the 2500 ofter 'as "fantastic." He said: "I would not give £5 for it.

There is no market for this type of Break-they have no collec

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TROUBLE DOGGED THEM ALL THE WAY

But They're Still Happy

London.

Pretty Pauline. Powton and Ken Ward always seem to have trouble on important days.

Ken Tho, day of their engagement party

bocamy ill and had to go to the hospital. The day they made wodding plans Ken lost his

A shipyard worker.

The day Ken and Paulino want to buy the wedding ring they malaica their last bus house send had to spend the night in a wait by reson.

The taxi taking Pauline to the church broke

dowth

Tha car taking Ken and Paulido to their new homo in Newburu following the rootption crachód, slightly injuring the newly married- couple, and breaking the best man's leg. And to make li oven werwo, when they arthred thebe new home hungry and, tired, they discovered that the grocerian had not

not been

And last weekend everything went wrong on "Ik was the worst day in dur Uyos”. Ken ond

their wedding day, an

Tho wong Dawsen ware delfretol

minded, “ini 14 still was the happiest

EMBARRASSED STILL

He behaved impeccably. He went about his job trying to

act as if nothing had happened." Exit the policemans on the

krat of ly thief, emberrested still but with the night and his anonymity as cloaks.

Pater & giggling Maureen to no clonk at all. pose again,

dedicated And, like, a truly artist's madel, no embarrass- mant, either.

Glad News?

Nottingham Proud father Geoffrey Nathan ∙of his truck to leaped out spread the glad nown that his wile had had a baby-whe upon the trick croaded down ahil, and struck a lamp post. Nathan W. Anet. 45 beto fare: nos saling the trucky's

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