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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE: 1936.

QUEEN ASTRID'S CHILDREN

Being Brought Up Exactly As

NUDISTS WANT FREEDOM

CAMPAIGN FOR

EDUCATIONTM

"REFINED"

SCHEME

London.

More than 25,000 British nudists have launched an

education campaign aimed at the "prudery" of the English people.

TO-DAY

She Had Wished

She

- Death

Escape From Alcatraz KING LEOPOLD'S

CONSTANT CARE

MOTHERLESS PRINCE WHO DOES NOT KNOW

Brussels, June 1.

THE three motherless children of King Leopold of the Belgians are being brought up exactly as their mother, Queen Astrid, wished them to be.

Princess Josephine Charlottej

FOUND

will be nine in October, Prince SMALLEST ORGANISM and Prince Albert was born on Baudouin is six in September,

June 6, 1914, barely fifteen Miss Maria Lili, spokesman for mouths before his mother was the National Sun and Air Associn-killed in n motor accident on Elon who keeps her clothes on August. 29 last year. when she talks about nudism' tai Princess Josephine, tall, golden- newspaper reportera, admitted; naired, knows that her mother is deat. The boys do not. Prince

they faced.n dytter fight,

dermis.

For the average Englishman is Baudouin said to his sister recently: more at home in a hard-boiled "when I am bigger I will have a shirt front than he is in his epi-motor-car to get mamna, who has

been away too long." "But every month," she added, Queen Astrid personally look "the prejudice against nudism ised after her children, spending growing more feeble and some day most of her time with them. Sho we will break down the wall of narrow-mindedness and have the bulator in the avenues adjoining was often seen pushing a peram- Hame paro attitude toward nudism the palace at Stuyvenberg. that they have, for instance, la France and Gerinnny.”

Miss Lili, an attractive young woman with auburn hair, has her offices almost is the shadow of the venerable St. Paul's Cathedral, sent of Britain's deep-rooted propriety. Only a few weeks ago the congregation of 1,008 persons at St. Paul's was scandalised when a young woman-Inter found to be 42 fanatle pacifist-walked silently down the nave, slipped off her cloak and slood naked before · the altar.

"REFINED" PROGRAMME

The educational campaign, with thousands of pamphlets and A corps of speech-makers, will be conducted on a "refined" asis no posters of naked girls basking in the sun.

Instead. the National Sun and Air Association will broadenst the invigorating, healthy life in the open air without any of man's im- pedimentu.

i

The greatest supporter of nude! ism in Great Britain-although he Atoutly denies practising it himself

is George Bernard Shaw.

But he's pessimistic about the possibilities of turning out British

The children were moved to Laeken Paince in September 1935, Their grandmother, Queen Eliza- beth, widow of the famous King Albert, hal the Stuyvenberg nursery copied exnetly, and tho same Xovernesses and servants were brought in.

Questions closely bordering on the nature of life itself are raised by the discovery of a new organ- ism, only a few millionths of a millimetre in diameter and the smallest yet known.

It was found in a London sewage at Hendon, Croydon, Hornsey and Finchley, and was described before the Royal Society, London, by Sir Patrick Laidlaw, pathologist to the Medical Research Council.

wards described the discovery as Eminent bacteriologists after-

of "extraordinary interest."

One of the dificulties is to know how such a small organism could have the properties of reproduc- tion without outside aid.

Owing

Joe Bowers, who came to Alcatraz Island to complete 21 years of a 26-year sentence, died following his attempt to escape from Alestras Island Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. He was the first to a tempt to escape zince the Federal Government took over the island. Bowers was shot by guards as he scaled a high wall on the island. This Insert, view shows Bowers' body being brought to San Francisco.

Bowers.

Sir Patrick said that it was un-¡

certain how the organisms should Labour Women

to this difficulty, there is a divi- sion of opinion among bacteriolo- glais as to how viruses should bo Their education follows regarded, Queen Astrid's method, which The biggest viruses appear to was the use of tutors daily be unquestionably living organ under the supervision of theiř | lams. About the smallest there! pleuro-pneumonia of eattle al- grandmother, their father, or are doubts-merely because they both.

are so small.

The nursery is on the first floor of the Palace of Icken. The children rise at seven, and are bathed and hayo light exercises before breakfast.

LESSONS

King Leopold often stops in the nursery to say a cheery "Good

before going morning" Brussels.

to

Princess Josophine Charlotta! leaves Laeken by motor-car every- morning at eight for school in the Palace at Brussels, which has four pupils.

These are the princess and three other children of the same age- Premier Van Zeeland's daughter, Baronne Snos, and the Countess Van der Straeten Ponthoz, niece of the Belginn. Ambassador to Washington. nudists in mass quantities.

Real-nudism-as-practised in. At noon Princess Josephine re- Germany and France is unpopular turns to Laeken, and lunches in here and will be for a long time to the nursery with her brothers. lunches with come because we British people Sometimes she still cling to the desire for sex ap- Queen Elizabeth and her father. In the afternoon she studies un- peal," he said.

By innuendo, he inferred that an der tutors. unclothed woman is about na al-!

At five o'clock she plays with luring as a raw potato and that her brothers, and seldom plays

Miss Lill said that Britain's na- ture-lovers are sincere devouts as is shown by the fact that the 25,-

with dolls.

EARLY TO BED

The children dine early in the

she had promised it.

Prince Albert passes the days of any normal, healthy baby.

be classified. They resembled in some respects the organism of

though there were striking dif- ferences blo-chemically.

THRIVING TRADE

IN DANGEROUS

COMMODITY

DARING THIEVES ROB

REPTILE "FARMS”

Amongst many remarkable advancements which medicine and surgery have seen during the last few de- cades, none are more astonishing than those associated with snake-venom-Since the dawn-of-man, serpents, venomous and otherwise, have been regarded with nothing but aversion and dread.

Recently, however, medical men have realised that snake venom may be converted into an anti-toxin whereby some of the world's most deadly reptiles have been made the instruments of healing as well as death.

and

During the past year the congu- of medicine.

Supporting Voluntary Sterilisation

ΤΟ AVOID CHILD SUFFERING

TRANSMISSION OF BLINDNESS By a large majority the Na- itional Conference of Labour Women at Swansea, last month adopted a resolution in favour of voluntary sterilisation of the un- fit being legalised.

Dr. Caroline Maule (North Lam

beth) moved the resolutions which urged the step for

Persons mentally defective of suffering from mental disorder:

Persons suffering from, or ho- lieved to be carriers of, a grave phys'-ul disability which has been shown to be transmissible;

Persons believed to be likely to transmit mental disorder or defect, The resolution added that any such measures should be subject

modern clothes are designed to; accentuate sex appeal.

| lant properties of sunke venom, which The general lay-out of a snake to the safeguards proposed by the MARK TWAIN TO

usually lead to the victim's demise park consists of a large enclosure Brock Committee. have been more closely investigated surrounded by a mont

filled with nursery, and are in bed early. CONTRARY

This was the Departmental Com- their potentialties utilised in water and dotted with concrete shel- Prince Baudouin spends a enim combating that most baffling of all ters for the snakes. At the Port mittee on Sterilisation, presided Shaw's theory, incidentally, is existence, mostly devoted to play-ments-harmophilia,

Elizabeth Park, which may be taken over by Mr. G. L. Brock. Safe- contrary to that of the American ing.

SNAKES "MILKED."

as a typical example, over a thou- | guarda proposed in its report in humorist, Mark Twain, who once The Prince likes bleycling in In the autumn of last year Dr. sand snakes pass through annually, 1934 included a written authorisa- said in discussing apparel that hoj the palace grounds, and he relles at the London Zoo, and Dr. ft. ous.

Burgess Barnett, the Curator of Rep- and the majority of theas are venom- tion by the Ministry of Health for would rather see Cleopatra with- ceived a bleycle shortly after G. Macfarlane, of St. Bartholomew's COURAGEOUS KEEPER

every operation and the full con- out a atilch on than General Grant Queen Astrid's death because Hospital, mnde known their initint Johannes, the In mous Basuto sent of the patleat, or parents or in full dress uniform."

success in this new use for anakej keeper of this institution, has been guardian. venom and to-day steady progress is bitten on innumerable occasions. In TRANSMITTED BLINDNESS being made not only this direction, his fifteen years of office, he has been Dr. Maule, who had an eye in- Queen Elizabeth devotes most but hopes are now entertained for all but killed sixteen times, and on jury and whose face was bandaged,

the use of snake venom extracts in one occasion, rendered blind for a 000 converts were obtained in the of her time to her grandchildren, curing or at least allaying cortain month by a spitting cobra. Fami- said that the voluntary sterillan- face of stiff official opposition, and Klug Léopold is with them nervous disorders such as epilepsy. liarity with his fearsome charges tion proposed would be not only

"In many towns we have tried whenever possible.

As a result, venomous snake, at the appears to have bred in Johannes a for the mentally deficient and insane to hire baths for nude swimming | Queen Elizabeth goes to the London Zoo are regularly "milked" mild contempt. He periodically sitta but also for those who had physi-“

that's the way everyone ought nursery after breakfast, returns for the venom secreted in their pol- the mud in the surrounding meat for cal handicaps which could be trans- to swim-but authorities invari- during the morning, superintends son glands and the dendly fluid con- the coins flung at him by visitors ably have refused," she said. “The luncheon, and also keeps an eye verted into life-saving anil-toxins, which frequently go wide. To the mitted to children.

Pointing to her bandage, sho The snakes available in even the attendant the most is a form of gold people who join our organisation on their studies, their play in, the best stocked Zoo, are, however, quite mine or savings bank.

added, "If I were in a child bear- definitely are not just out for a nursery during the afternoon, and inadequate to meet the ever-growing The traffic snakes has thus been ing time of life, and found that thrill.

their bedtime.

demand for the venom, and as a re- created by the demands of medicino. this eye trouble of mine might be The majority of them are! She insists that the children's all snake parks are springing up The Fort Elizabeth Park, for exam transmitted to any children, I people with comfortable incomes, education and recreation should all over the world where venomous ple, has a regular tarif, paying ac should like to have the right of and some of them are almost follow the lines prepared by snakes abound. Such parks origin-cording to species and size, and ali millionaires..

Queen Astrid..

ated somo years ago when the pre- poisonous snakes brought in are ac-being sterilised."

She added that. 14 kinds of blind- "We are contemplating building

She has been absent only paration of anti-snake venoms was conted by the authorities. fifteen days since

recognised as a working possibility, known is the park's generous pay-news could be transmitted from Queen

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ment for creatures otherwise of little parents to children, and people of- Astrid's death, and that was to

The first such park was that at value to the finders that the author-flicted with any of them, should visit her daughter in Naples. Tela In Hondures, and another and ities are frequently imposed upon, have the right of being sterilised. much larger of long standing is the and have actually been burgled on Referring to the Roman Catholic

a new colony this year at a cost of 520,000 and will select a site .800,"

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one at Sao Paulo, Brazil, under the several occasions.

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So well

of Dr. Amaral, Another- Incredible as it may seem, men, both opposition, Dr. Maule anid: "No park has been established under Mr. black and white, will break into the one who feels very strongly on this Fitz-Simona at Port Elizabeth in park at night, purloin the dead rep: question has the right to impose South Africa, whilst this year's re-illes under cover of darkness, and his views on Protestants or Agnos- cruit to the movement is a park coll- then by morning light, offer them 48 tics." trolled by tho. Hinifkine Serum In- "new arrivals" to the authorities. Dr. Ethel Summerskili said that stitute of Bombay,

Since it is not possible to mark snakes

It also whe reported that one of: the country's most modern and finest appointed" nudist centres will be opened soon on the south coast opposite the Isle of Wight.

New York, May 31.

It is now known that the properties like birds, or even fish, auch male she supported voluntary sterillan Thirty neres of ground will be Quadruplets--three boys and a of suche venoms vary enormously factors can only be brought to book tion on purely medical grounds. available and will include land- girl-have been born to Mrs. Elsie according to the species, and there if caught red-handed. Although "You may be told," she added. scaped gardens, wild woodlands Kasper, resident of New Jersey. |fore it is vital that every country the Kolle boys are the oblef, offen-|"that this question should be left to and a sen-watea swimming pool. Their fathor, William Kasper, la abounding In deadly reptiles should ders, the hero of the roguent gallery the medical profession. If you in-

Near Norwich a group of nature. a 4-a-week railway labourer. He have an institute and park devoted to is a young European.

sist leaving these things to the Ha local snakes. Thus the Sao Paulo In months he atola scores of lovers have purchased 300 acres of and his wife were born in Ger- Institute denis chiefly with the rattle Boomslangs, deadly arboreal snakes medical profession you will not got land for a cump

The National Sun and Air Anso-I The "qunda" are in an incubator, master,

sanke, the Fer-de-Lance and tire Bust- which ho disentangled from their justice/

that of Bombay with the roosts in a desse shrubbery. He Last year, at the meeting of the' ciation reported that, among pro- and all are reported to be doing krait and the cobra, while South worked in pitch darkness, and had his British Medical Association, whon fessional hin, doctors furnished well.

Africa in chiefly concerned with the hands and feet bare, despite the fact a ductor had the temerity to intre- cobra, nuff adder, and the notorious that the grounds was littered with duco a certain resolution. Lord Momba. "One of the clergymen, a rector,

puit cilders, lio was sentencal to writes his Sunday sermons while assessed at their true value, not as director admits, he merited the Vic things much bo left to the people

Snake parks to-day are fast being month's imprisonment, but, as the Dawson of Penn said that those ho sits with a group of other nod-mero show sights for the curious, toxin Cross rather than the punish and, the medical profession would ists at one of our retreats."

but as vital factors in the armoury | ment that was meted out to him. . follow.

them the most recruits.

"And the number of clergymen

In our raaks, including one bishop, nlready runs into three figures." added Miss Lili.

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