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THE SCIENCE BABY
LONDON, July 17" (By Air Mall)-A woman doctor in Manchester has proved that motherhood is possible from the laboratory,
She is the mother of a "test tube" baby, a girl now two years old: healthy, happy. strong and In every way normal.
The success of the experiment means that many childless wives can now realise their greatest hopes that of becoming mothers. The operation is a simple one, but requires the attention of f medical man, No anaesthetic - is needed."
The mother of the "test tube girl" is in her thirtles. She carried out the operation on strictly scientifle lines and after a careful study of the father's medical history."
Simple Operation
A specialist with whom the ex- periment was discussed said: "Its
success is particularly valuable. It means that in the case of a couple unable to have children, but who particularly require an heir. their wishes can be fullled.
"Medical men would be quite willing to perform the operation in such justifiable cases as those. It is quite simple,
even
"The few cases which have been performed in England have been done quietly, and I do not think that medical journals have pub- lished any accounts. "We in England are always too shy."
No Fuss Made
One of Manchester's foremost,
gynaecologists said:
SOCIAL
WOMEN'S PAGE
MARRIED?
HE TELLS
YOU WHY
Why do young marry? Profes- sor Laird T. Hites-of America, of course-thinks he knows all about it.
The professor, who lives in Chicago, conducts a course de- signed to make the course of true 1ove. run smooth, and his stu- dents, he finds, marry because:-
(1) ." Almost universally they want children-not too many haphazardly conceived, bat children who are planned for and properly spaced and cagerly desired,
(^) "They want Indepen- dence from parental control. (3) "They want a home of their own, a haven of refuge to which one in the home upon whom they they may go when pressed, some-
may lavish their gifts.
their affection and
Difficult To Be Wise (4) They want
the status which marriage brings, the cham- pionship of
admiring part- ner."
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"We start with the assump- tion that it is very easy to fall in love, but very difficult to fall in love wisely," sald Professor Hites. explaining the object of his course.
GAVE AID TO
'OFFICIALS
GORDON SALUTES, THE 'KING AND QUEEN--The most charm- ing picture of the racing season. A smile from the King and Queen for Gordon Richards as the champion Jockey walks away » to ride the King's Ally, Great Truth, In the National Breeders'
Produce Stakes at Sandown Park.
NEWSETTES
Mr. A. M. Holland of the P.W.D. observes his birthday to-day.
A course of ARP. lectures, in English, will be given at the Club Lusitano, Ice House' Street, at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, commencing on August 1, 1939.
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DUCHESS OF KENT'S PORTRAIT
At her Arst London exhibition: the Baroness Ines Taxis, who is Viennese, is showing a charming portrait of the Duchess of Kent. as well as the last portrait"to be painted of "Queen Marie of Ru- mania. This was done during visit to the Queen six weeks be- fore her death.
A
to
An entire wall is devoted visionary paintings, carried cut from imagination and without models. These dream pictures have appeared to the Baroness ever since childhood, when used to be scolded for not copy- ing nature.
Child Artist
abe
Most of the paintings are done in a special fresco methed she Invented and perfected. It is claimed to be as light as canvas
surface.
Reman wall
and a durable as
portrait
A charming
"The Dreamer"
S of Baroness's little fair-haired
called
the 10-
year-old son, Franzi, Opposite la landscape painted by him when he was nine.
0: the Grand
The following passengers dis-
Queen Mary was the first pur- embarked at "Hongkong, from, the Vän Heutaz yesterday morning: chaser at another woman artist's Mrs. A. Grant Bell, Mr. R. M. Conexhibition, that rad, Miss E. Greevy, the Rev. W. H.Duchess Olga of Russia. Several Hudspeth, Mr. G. E. Hof, Mr. A. 3.pictures were sent to Marlborough Long, Mr. A. Muller, Mr. J. Mc-House, from which Queen Mary Afee, and Mr. and Mrs. Marques chose a study of red and Pinto and four children.
cyclamen. Ahe already several others by the same artist.
By order of the Chinese National Government, posthumous honoura Under the
"We do not make a great deal Woman's Courage In will be conferred upon. Professor Mesdames
of fuss about this kind of opera-
tion in England, but it is certainly done. In fact, I have performed the operation myself.
LADY ANNE HOPE
ENGAGED
Lady Anne Hope, who Was operated on for appendicitis in a London nursing home was reported from Simla recently to be engaged
Train Wreck
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sponsorship of 11 Tsung-jen, Pai Chien Hsien-tung, of the National Chung-hst and Huang Shu-chu a Felping Normal College, who died campaign for $300,000 for pur in Peiping recently.
"B
Reference Was made at the ham rail crash, Norfolk, to oficial inquiry into
chasing mosquito nets for Chinese the Down-
soldiers fighting at the front has courage of a
the
In H. M. Supreme Court, Shang- been launched, Many Chinese woman.. the Arst hal, before Judge Sir Allan Mossop soldiers are understood to have passenger to leave the wrecked a decree nisi was awarded to Mrs contracted malaria as a result of
official Lena Brook in a2. action for mosquito bites,
who showed
an
White
Owns
ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS
The Late Tsar And His Family
"Normally any difficulty about childbearing can be rectified by a minor operation, but if that can- not be done, and the parents parti- train, cularly want a child. this is a where the dead were lying safe way by which to
and divorce overcome warned him not to let others see Petitioner was represented by K. E. against Edwin Brook. the difficulty."
An interesting visitor to Hong- the badly injured.
Newman.
kong at the present time is D. death of the Tsar Nicholas II and On the 21st anniversary of the The Inquiry Was conducted
Lt. Col. A. I. B. L.
Julean Arnold, U. S. Commercial his family, a requiem service was Mount, For the relief of Chinese families Attache, who has just returned conducted by the Archimandrite chief inspecting officer of rail-belonging to overseas Chinese from a trip to Chungking. Dr. Ar-Nicholas (Gibbes), former tutor to ways, Ministry of Transport, at who have been left stranded as a nold, who is on his way back to the Liverpool Street Station, London. result of hostilities in the Swatow-his headquarters, in Shanghai, was Archpriest Michael, Polsky, at the Cesarevitch, and by the The accident occurred when an Chaochow areas, the Kwangtung guest last night of Mr. P. K. Chu. Rusalan Orthodox Church of St. LN.E.R. express collided with a Provincial Bank is now extending general secretary of straw-laden lorty at a level-cross- small credit loans.
the Bino- Philp's (188. Buckingham Palace American Institute of Cultural Re-Road, S. W. 1). lations, at the Cafe de Chine. Ave
The following passengers will
The Russian Colony of London by Seven disembark at Hongkong from the
private subscription presented the additions.s. President Taft on August 5-on smoothly, according to Dr. J. Nicholas in memory the Emperor Yenching University is carrying church with 'an ikon of St. Miss E. Burkwall. "Mr. E., Hoytt,, Leighton Stuart, President of the and his family, and it will be Mrs. W. Klein, Mrs. F. Landis, Yenching University, in an inter-blessed after the requiem service. clerk Master D Landis, Miss M. Landis, view in Chungking on Monday. Dr. elther Mr. D. Loncraine, Mr. J. Maloof. Stuart arrived ut Chungking from of St. Nicholas of the eighteenth The Ikon is a beautiful painting slowed Mr. F. Merritt, and MIES W. Jones Peiping last week-end. down as it approached the gate.
The enrol-century framed in blue and antijne The train whistied
ment, Dr. Stuart sald, has been in- gold. In front of the ikon will be lorry was about a yard from the riages are announced:-Mr. Phillying Chungking in two or three days light continually burning.
The following "forthcoming mar creased to. 900, Dr. Stuart is leav-bung & silver-gilt lamp with a gate. but the lorry proceeded Lee, minister, residing at No. 3 to return to Peiping by way of lamp, which is rococo style, hangs The through the gate in front of the Kow Sut Long. Kowloon City, and Hongkong. train. The train appeared to hit Miss Kathryn Wong, nurse, of the the lorry in front.
same address; and of Mr. Siu
to Lt. Patrick Henry James ing at Hilgay. near Downham Southby, R. N.
Market. The engine and Lady Anne, who is 25: Is the coaches were derailed. eldest daughter of the Marquess people were injured in
L
Whistled To Lorry
B. J. Biggs. 17. rallway
of Linlithgow. Viceroy of India, to the four who were killed. "and the Marchioness of Lin-
Hthgow."
Lt. Southbys the younger son of Cmdr. Sir Archibald Southby, M.P., and Lady Southby, of Burford Priory, Oxfordshire.
The wedding will take place in India in November.
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at Hilgay, said the lorry stopped for a second or
when the
"The fireman of the train was the first person I met," said Biggs, The next person I met was a woman, one of the Arst out of the train. She was smoking a
ciga-
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Representatives of 300,000 tribes-i
Gaun, of No. 262 Lalchikok Road. men, belonging to a total of 24 second floor, and Miss Chiu Po, of tribal settlements along the bor No. 256 Laichikok Road, third floor.
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on chains of fine workmanship and is hall-marked 1757.
WAS
QUEEN TO LAUNCH ders of
NEW BATTLESHIP Tsinghai, Kansu and Ezechuen, are now Mr. C. H. Wang, manager of the hungking. They will call
en, route to
The Queen will launch the new rette and she calmly pointed out New York branch of the Bank of General Chiang Kai-shek, General bank on September 18, it
on battleship Duke of York at "Clyde" the dead under the bogle of the China, has just arrived here from Executive of the Kuomintang, to officially announced from Buck- second coach. She told me that the United States via Europe. Mr. request him that permission beingham Palace. some persons were terribly in- Wang. who has relinquished granted the tribesmen to join the Jured and that I should keep the appointment in favour of Mr. Z. others away from them."
B. Zia, is a younger brother of Dr. D. Barber, of Cambridge, driver C. T. Wang, formerly Chinese Am- of the express, said that he was bassador to the United States. one of the two Sandringham Royal train drivers. When he saw the lorry it was only about! 100 to 300 yards away. He sounded his whistle, but it could not clear the line in time, The express was travelling at between 55 and 60 m.p.b. “
TOO EXPENSIVE
FOR AMY.
LONDON, July 17 (By Air Mail) "Amy Johnson yesterday made her debut as a writer, with a book called "Sky Roads of the World." and confesses in it that she doesn't now own a plane-it Is too expensive..
"I gilde, however, because it is peaceful and cheap and much more interesting than 'power' flying."
Talking about the "prohibitively high, cost of maintaining a private "plane" she makes one specially interesting point-about the price 'of petrol.
The Petrol Tax. of the cost of high-grade petrol She remarks that a good deal
tax ostensibly for he Road Fund! And she goes on to point out that in France this portion of the cost is refunded to the pilot, Next time the Government is thinking of ways and means to encourage civil aviation this point) might very usefully be dealt with:
WEDNESDAY'S
MENU
BREAKFAST.
Grape Juice Cereal Sausagé Fatties Baked Eggs Mumins Coffee
LUNCHEON Cream of Corn Soup Cole Slaw Salad Jellied Ham Mold Lima Beans Asparagus Eliced Toinatoes Custard Iced Tea
DINNER
Tomato Juice Cocktail Baw Carrot Balad Sour Cream Veal Loaf
Mashed Potatoes Baked Onions Green Peas Assorted Fruits. Coffee Dinner Mints
During September the King and Queen, will be at Balmoral, and the Queen will travel to Clyde- With the approval of the Military bank for the launching ceremony Affairs Commission, the property from there. It is understood that of Mr. Fu Siao-en, "Mayor of the the King will accompany her. Shanghai Special-Municipal Gov The Duke of York is one of ernment." in his native home at Britain's five new £8,000,000 bat- Chinghai, East Cheklang, was sold tleships, and is being built by at a public auction conducted by John Brown and Co., Ltd., Clyde- the district authorities on July 15.bank,
The property auctioned Inchided She was orginally to have been 180,03 mow of farm lands, a shop called Anson, but the name Duke house, and a private residence with of York was thought to be urniture
more appropriate for vessel which is to be a sister-shir of The entire British staffs of the the King George V and the Prince Pelping - Liaoning Tientsin - Pakow of Wales, ships of the same Railway Administrations were dis- class.
missed by the Japanese authorities, It would also commemorate effective as from July 1. Contracts the service, in the Navy of the conchided with British firms for King The remaining two ships the transportation of goods on the are to be called Jellicoe and two railways, are reported also to Beatty.
have been rancelled by the aut thorities of the railway adminis trations, some of these being C.O.D. contracts, the report states blackmail with a cinema proprietor Paris reports a new form of
as the victim. Recently someone Dr. Julius Lippert, Mayor of telephoned to the manager of a Berlin, and Prince Colonna, Mayor Paris cinema, telling him that a of Rome, have been invited to performance arranged for the Tokyo by the Mayor of Tokyo: Mr. afternoon could not take place. Kelkicht Tamomogi, with a view to The manager thought this a poor forming a League of the Capitals kind of joke, but discovered that of the Anti Comintern Powers," it the aims trad been stolen The is reported. Invitations are said to
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