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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1959.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

No Tipping In Russia

But The Muscovite Is First Ever Snow Leopard

More Interested In Padding His Bank Account

Moscow.

IF Maria Ivanovna, a waitress in one of Moscow's first class restaurants, had the right Communist spirit, she would spurn that extra few roubles ker customers offer her.

"Citizen, take your change, your tips lower my dignity," she would say.

But Maria, along with too many Moscow taxi drivers, coat porters, room attendants and

Bees these days to be more Interested in padding a bank account than keeping up self- respect, according to the news- paper Soviet Culture.

Frowned upon Although tipping is officially frowned upon in the USSR, the custom sill exists as a holdover from Czacist days even though 12' a drop In the bucket by Western standards.

It's possible, for instance, to arrive on a train, take a taxl to a hotel, give the bellhop your luggage, check your coat,

get a halrout and cai dinner

In the hotel restaurant with out dropping a single kopek (tenth of one cent) in an out. stretched palm.

N.

But Soviet Culture, in a letter from disgruntled Muscovite Zaborsky, has just pointed out that it's not as easy as it should ba.

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Zaborsky pointed, for instance, to withhold a tendency change from sale of a pro- theatro gramino at a Moscow

or sporting event. At a mini- sellers mum, the programme

would be so slow on the draw about returning what was due that the customer felt intimi dsted.

It turns out, als letter said, that "as a rule the programme (three which costs 30 kopeks cents) is sold for a rouble (10 centa)TM

were

The rake in Zaborsky also claimed that cont

attendants TOUm often becoming surly and cervile becaus inisplaced concern for how much they can expect DS Ulp.

Que coat-oltecker at a large Moscow realaurant

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admlited the mirat rake in from roubles (84) to 200 roubles ($20) in Lips on a good 637, the felter revealed.

often

While Western wagen

are cut to the bone for

those

who supplement their income

by tips, there is no such system

in the Soviet Union. Nor is

WHY DO WE

Yawn?

BECAUSE WE'RE

Bored?

D°

Paris.

monkeys yawn be- cause they are bored? Apes, man and carnivorous animals all yawn. Nobody is sure just why they do it.

In study

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of yawning published here by the medical Hopitaux review Semaine Des (Hospital Week). Dr Jean most Barbizet maintains that yawns are caused by "psycholo- gleal factors," chiefly boredom.

He denies, the psychological role of the yawn.

Barbizet is breaking new ground. But he has plenty of radiographs of people yawning to back him up.

ximal-

In the past, one theory has been that yawns and taneous stretching speed blood circulation and help keep lions, monkeys, etc.

men, awoke.

Explanation

up

minor

Another explanation was that yawns clear up breathing difficulties.

Barbleet admits that hunger, a keavy meal, too much or too Kito aleep can preceda JAWD while

Women

Jawn more when they are with child, But ho skėti imalats that the nerve centres which govern the yawning spparatus respond maluly to tedium.

At the neurological centre of

split

there such a thing as a con- Paris Saint Antoine Hospital, cessionaire who makes a large Barbizet has been taking proilt from such sip-producing second radiographs of humans activities as checking hats and yawning. He has yet to study

Since tipping is not supposed yawning animals like cats

coats.

to exist, there is no wage ad- Justment to allow for 11. "A taxi driver for example theoretically must plan to five on his salary alone atthough he can usually bank on nt least a few roubles on, the side,

Rorillas.

or

His analyses show that whon man rawng his thorax (chest (throat cavity) and pharynx canal) dilute three or four tunes their normal calibre. A really throw it powerful yawn con inen's Jaw out of joint,

Russia's increasing influx of foreigners from tip-giving coun-

But he cannot discover that a trits does not seem yet to have affected the tipping patternyawn Alls any physical need.

here.

་

Intourist

The reason: most tourists in Russia are under the auspices travel of the state-controlled agency "Intourist" which issues visitors coupons for virtually all their expenses, including vice charger.

from

BCT-

abroad A viallor theoretically can go for days, even wecks in Russia without Laying out single rotible in hard cash for the type of mar vico ho would expect to for, In Western countries. Tipping in the Soviet Union

p

ia done mostly by the Russians themselves under a far more than In thé flexible system

West, where 10, 12, or 18 por

cent depending on the country,

He points out that epilepsy, certain cerebral tumors ond hemiplegia (partial paralysis) can cause yawning fils.

This, be says, shows the as- sential role of the higher nerve centres in the whole process.

An expression

Since the yawn originates in these nerve centres, he argues, it must be psychological,

Triplets

TT's never been known before-triplets for a 'snow- Jeopard in captivity. These were born in Copenhagen 200. They are doing well-Express Photo.

No More Sweets

London. British European Air- ways announced it has stopped giving free sweets to passengers.

Airline

spokesman said sweets were first given passengers to prevent ear "popping" but installation of pres- surised cabing makes the chewing unneces

sary.

Besides, they sald, li cost £8,000 a year to distribute the sweeta. -UPI.

It Took

20 Years

To Get A

Gas Stove

Sheffield.

It took 20 years but to- day Mrs Edith Slack was cooking with gas again.

In 1839 Mrs Slack and her husband moved into а

City municipal house.

mas officials promised to move her gas stove there," World War II came along, and

Mrs Stack did her bit cooking on the new house's coal stove. After the war sho still waited for her stove.

RAISED A FUSS

by

PORKERS WERE My husband Joe was a quiet

ALL BONES

London.

to

Fivo little pigs went

market-but they were so wook from lack of food they could hardly stand. "Our dissimulation of the *yawn." Barbiset

-An official of the ASPCA. "acquired rough education, charged in court that INTER

writes.

man. He didn't like making a tuss," she said. He died rem .cently.

Mrs Black then raised a fuss, She bombarded the gas board

with complaints, produced documents and crupted in a long-repressed desire to do nounce cooking with coal. the gas board finally admitted they had lost Mrs Black's gas Love. They sent her a, pow une.--UFT,

In implicit recognition thal Buchanan Pool had To under The New Look

yawning is an: expression of fed the five porker that they boredam"

Derby:

were far underweight and allRYING, for the "now, look"

In that ense, monkeys prob- their bones stuck out.

tribċauty, contèrts

the

ably yawn because they ero Pool claimed he had fed the earnival comittee chose 62- bored too. But the doctor falled pigs before taking them The Soviet scale varles from to push his idea to its furthest market

is an established pattern.

limite and left readers asking:

to your-old Mrs Martha Staley as

neparted

thete queen for 1959.

.

The committed was

nothing in theory without any How about lions? Do they yawn The Judge fined Pool £20 for "ted up with glamour girls in- grumbling-to around

How causing the pig unnecessary torested only in mink and

sudtering-UPI.

money."UPI.

10 per because they are bored?

cent. But everything is govern

ed by the generosity of the donor and not what he owes- UPI.

Been Drinking Since Three

Tandon. "Every morning since I wa treo years old I have been used. to drink of Vodka and I can't. live without it," Hungurlan Forene Hopka told moutarde's

court.

He was fined £16 and two ot his colonies. 23 and 23 esh respectively for operating a

about dogs?UPI.

'Don't Ignore Those Pink Elephants'

PINK

London. INK elephants"

should be taken seriously-they can kill, a doctor has warned.

Dr Alan P. Grant, physician at the Belfast City Hon- pital and Downe Hospital, writing In The Medical ---- Press of the frenizimit

"It

and effects of chronic

orientation in space and

"Unless trented adequately

)...

OFFICIALLY THAT IS

Michelangelo's Mighty Moses Masterpiece

MAN

ANY

Rome

seen

Rome, to tourists

have Michelangelo's "Mighty Moses" in the church of St Peter in Vincoli, But there were probably only a few of these visitors aware of the curious story behind the creation of the great work.

There is something markedly different about the staluo of Mores in comparison with other Michelangelo masterpieces done during the same period. He look much more time over its execution than he did with other works. And for once he com pletely finished the work whereas, with others, he usually left areas which would not be viewed, unsculptored. This was because he did not have the time or he had lost interest.

PAINSTAKING

Hence there is a painstaking pericetion about Moses and an extraordinary Utelike expression of the character it represents.

Michelangelo' was obviously inspired. Ille inspiration catné from man called William of Piedmont who seted as the model for the statue of Moses, History does not tell us much about. William of Pledmont's carly fc. All that is known about the man is that he had been summoned from Pledmont in about 1502 by Pope Julius II to help in the defence of the Vatican against the attacks of Turkish pirates.

William was an engineer, but ubove all noted as an inventor. He was probably the first diver in history, for he had invented

a diver's suit complete with fron shoes.

The suit was 'n kind of water- proof canvas avarall. Its hood contained ELD Hír Back from which in tube was attached so that the man enclosed in the overall could suck in a mouth- full of air now and again while under water.

HE GASPED

In actual fact, William ot

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of In a fury

Inspiration Michelangelo bogan work, an the slotub with Willam posing near him, arms folded across his broad chest and eyes scornful under his bushy and bristling eye-brows.

REQUESTED

Probably William hated the idea of modelling for n statue when he could be spending the Alme Inventing or constructing But some engineering project, Michelangelo had requested Pope Julius for the loan of his engineer and Inventor and the orders of the Pope were supreme.

William of Piedmont was certainly an excellent model for a Mases. He alood over six feet tall and sported a long, thick white beard, When donned his diving sult he would divide his beard in two plaits, throw one over each shoulder and bring the lengths around his waist, and tie the ends in a knot over his stomach.

When Michelangelo had com- pleted the statue of Moses it was reported he was particularly pleased and when he stood back to admire it be said antlingly: "Why don't you talkg"-UPI.

Fairy Tales

While

Playing

CHILDREN

Rome.

In Vorona don't have to ask

Piedmont used this primitive grandmother to tell them a diver's sult in 1507 at Civitavec fairy story for they can hear

chle, near Rome, headquarters |

of Pontlacial Navy at the time, them over the loudspeaker]

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He successfully salvaged a skip-[In their new playground CAPITOL

load of artillery shells from a park. sunken ship in the Civitavecchia

harbour.

The big Verona 43,000-square foot

children's park on the During this historie

event, | Plazza Arsenala was Inaugurated WHHam of Piedmont met here recently. It has been Michelangelo and it has been equipped with everything for that the great tiny tots between the ages of Florentine artist stood before four and ten. the inventor with month srupe, overwhelmed by the

recorded

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includes swings, sikies,

maiosilo figure of the man. merry-go-rounds, small

race

track for blerefes and pedal Michelangelo had been con-

cars and a push-button systems templating thu mausoleum for the kids to listen to music, monument of Jullus II for some

songs and fairy stories-UPI. time but had difficulty in finding the right model for the figuro of Moses,

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