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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 8,

1936.

QUEEN ASTRID'S CHILDREN TO-DAY

Being Brought Up Exactly As She Had Wished

NUDISTS WANT

FREEDOM

CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION

REFINED" SCHEME

London.

More than 25,000 British nudists have launched an education campaign aimed

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 Charlotte |

will be nine in October, Princo SMALLEST ORGANISM

at the "prudery of the louin is six in September,

English people.

and Prince Albert was born on June, 6, 1934, barely Gifteen Miss Maria Lili, spokesman for months before his mother

FOUND

Questions closely bordering on was the nature of life itself are raised

the National Sun and Air Associa-killed in a motor accident on by the discovery of a new organ tion who keeps her clothes on when she talks about nudism 10 newspaper reporters, admitted they feed a witter #ght.

August 29 last year.

ism, only a few millionths of a Princess Josephine, tall, golden-millimetre in diameter and the haired, knows that her mother is

smallest yet known. dead. The boys do not. Prince! For the average Englishman is Baudouin said to his sister recently: more at home in a hard-boiled "When I am blyger I will have a shirt front than he is in his epl-motor-cer to get mamns, who hea

heen away too long."

dermia.

"But every month," she adder, "the prejudice against nudism is growing more feeble and some day we will break down the wall of narrow-mindedness and have the same pure attitude toward nudism that they have, for instance, in France and Germany."

ed

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

Escape From Alcatraz-Death

Joe Bowers, who came to Alcatraz Island to complete 21 years of a 25-year sentence, died following his attempt to escape from Alcatraz Island Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. He was the first-lo at- tempt to cacapo since the Federal Government took over the island. Bowers was shot by guards as he scaled a high wall on the laland. This view shows Bowers' body being brought to San Francisco. Insert, Bowers.

Sir Patrick said that it was un

Queon Astrid personally look- after her children. spending most of her time with them. She was often seen pushing a peram- bulator in the avenues adjoining

Eminent bacteriologists after- the palace at Stuyvenberg.

wards described the discovery as The children were moved to of "extraordinary interest."

One of the 'diflculties is to know i Lucken Palace in September 1935, Miss Lili, an attractive young | Their grandmother, Queen Eliza-how such a small organism could woman with auburn hair, has berbeth, widow of the famous King have the properties of reproduc- offlecs almost in the shadow of the Albert, had the Stuyvenberg tion without outside aid. Owing) venerable St. Paul's Cathedral, nursery copied exactly, and the to this difficulty, there is a divi- scat of Britain's deeprooted

samo governusses and servantssion of opinion among bacteriolo- propriety. Only few weeks ago

were brought in.

gista as to how viruses should be the congregation of 1,000 persons Their education tellows regarded, at St. Paul's was seandalised when i

Queen Astrid's method, which The biggest viruses appear to be classified. They resembled in a young woman--luter found to

Was the use of tutors daily be unquestionably living organ- some respects the organism of be # fanatic purifist-- walked.

under the supervision of their isms, Ahout the smallest there! pleuro-pneumonin of cattle al silently down the nave, slipped off

grandmother, theither, orjare doubts-merely because they though there were striking de her cleak and stood naked before

are so sma}}..

ferences bio-chemiendly. o altar.

"REFINED" PROGRAMME

The educational campaign, with! thausands of pamphlets and corps of speech-makers, will be!

both.

The nursery is on the first floor of the Palare of Loeken. Tho children rise at seven, and are bathed and have Bght exercisen before breakfast.

* LESSONS King Leopold often stops in the conducted on a "refined" aash-ursery to say a cheery "Good no posters of unked girls basking morning" in the sun.

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

Brussels.

Before going to

Princess Jusophine Charlotte leaves Lacken by motor-car every murning at eight for school in the Palace at Brussels, which has four pupils.

These are the princess and three

The greatest supporter of und- ist in Great Britain--although heather children of the same age-- stoully denies practising it himself

in George Bernard Shaw, But he's pessimistle about the possibilities of turning out British nudists in mass quantities.

Fronier Van Zeeland's daughter, Baronne Snoy, and the Countess Van der Straeten Ponthoz, niece)

Ambassador to of the Belgian Washington, "Real nudism as practise in Al noon Princess Josephine re- Germany and France is unpopular turns to Laeken, and lunches in here and will be for a long time the nursery with her brothers,

lunches come because we British people Sometimes she

with still cling to the desire for sex mp-Queen Elizabeth and her father. In the afternoon she studies un- pen," he said.

der tutors.

By innuendo, he inferred that an unclothed woman is about as al- Juring as a raw potato and that modern clothes are designed to accentuato sex appeal.

At five o'clock she plays with her brothers, and seldom plays

with doils.

MARK TWAIN TO CONTRARY Shaw's theory, Incidentally, is contrary to that of the Americauing. humorist, Mark Twain, who once

ald in discussing apparel that 'hel would "rather see Cleopatra with- out a stitch on than Guneral Grant in full dress uniform."

EARLY TO

BED

certain how the organisms should Labour Women

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 Since the dawn of man, serpents, with snake venom. 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.

During the past year the coñgu-j of medicine.

Supporting Voluntary Sterilisation

TO AVOID CHILD SUFFERING

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

beth) moved the resolutions which Dr. Caroline Maule (North Lam- urged the step fort

or

Persons mentally defective suffering from mental disorder;

Persona sullering from, or be- grave lieved to be carriers of, a physical disabilly 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 lant properties of snake venon, which The general lay-out of a snake to the safeguards proposed by the usually lead to the victim's demise, park consists of a large enclosure Brock Committee. have been more closely investigated surrounded by a moat filled with

TRANSMITTED BLINDNESS

The children dine early in the nursery, and are in bed early, and their potentialities utilised in water and dotted with concrete shel- This was the Departmental Com- Prince Baudouin spends a exim combating that most balling of alters for the sakey. At the Port mittee on Sterilisation; presidel existence, mostly devoted to playments--haemophilia.

Elizabeth Park, which may be taken over by Mr. G. L Brock. Safe- SNAKES "MILKED." as a typical example, over a thou-guards proposed in its report in The Prince likes bicycling In In the autumn of inst year Dr.jsand snakes pass through annually, 1934 included a written authorisa- the palace grounds, and he re- Burgess Barnett, the Curator of Rep and the majority of these are venom- tion by the Ministry of Health for

tles at the London Zoo, and Dr. R.† ous, ceived a bicycle shortly after. Macfarlane, of St. Bartholomew's. - COURAGEOUS KEEPER

every operation and the full con- Queen Astrid's death because Hospital, made known their initial Johannes, the famous Basuio, sent of the patient, or parents or she had promised it.

success in this new use for snakel keeper of this institution, has been guardian. Miss Lili anid that Britain's na-

bltien on innumerable occasions. In Prince Albert passes the days of venom and to-day steady progress i ture-lovers are sincere slevouta as any normal, healthy baby,

being made not only in this direction, his fifteen years of office, he has been Dr. Maule, who had an eye in- is shown by the fact that the 25, 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 certain menth by a spitting cobra. Fami- said that the voluntary sterilisa face of stiff official opponition. and King Leopold 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 snakes 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 ifts but also for those who had physi- -that's the way everyone ought nursery after breakfast, returns for the venom eersted in their pal- the mud in the surrounding meat for cal handicaps which could be trans- to swim-but authorities invari during the morning, superintende son glands and the deadly fluid con- the coins flung at him by visitors

which frequently go wide. To the mitted to children.

she ably have refused," she said. "The luncheon, and also keeps an eye verted into life-saving anti-toxina.

Pointing to her bandage, The snakes avaiable in even the attendant the moat is a form of goid! 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 in snakes has thus been ing time of life, and found that demand for the venom, and as a re-created by the demands of medicine. this eye trouble of mine might be "The majority of them are! She insists that the children's sult anake parks are springing up The Port Elizabeth Park, for exam-transmitted to any children, I people with comfortable incomes, edgention and recreation should all over the world where venomous ple, has a regalar tariff, 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 spezies and size, and all

Queen Astrid.

ated some years ago when the pre- poisonous snakes brought in are ae- being sterilised." millionaires,

paration of anti-snake venoms was cepted by the authorities. So well She added that 14 kinds of blind-. She has been absent only recognised as a working possibility kwn in the park's generous pay-ness could be transmitted from fifteen days since Queen

ment for creatures otherwise of the parents to children, and people af- 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. Tê in Hondures, and another and itles are frequently, imposed upon, have the right of being sterilised,

much inrger of long standing is the land have nelually been burgled on

Referring to the Roman Catholic one at Sao Paulo, Brazil, under the several occasions. direction of Dr. Amaral. Another Incredible as it may seem, men, both opposition, Dr. Maule said: "No park has been established under Mr. black and white, will break into the one who feels very strongly on this Fitz-Simons at Port Elizabeth in park at night, purloin the deadly rep question ins the right to impose South Afrien, whilst this year's re-tiles under cover of darkness, and his views on Protestants or Agnos- erult to the movement is a park con- then by morning light, offer them as ties."

Stare it is not possible to mark snakes

thrill

+

"We are contemplating building

a now colony this year at a cost of

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£20,000 and will select sitei 40071,"

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It alsó was reported that one of the country's most modern and "finest appointed" nudist coutres

Railwaymantrelied by the Baffkine Serum In-new "arrival" to the authorities. Dr. Ethel Summerali sald that will be opened soon on the south

New York, May 31. stitute of Bombay. coast opposite the Tale of Wight.!

It is now known that the properties like birds, or even fish, sttelt male she supported voluntary sterilisa- Thirty acres of ground will be Quadruplets-three boys and a of Munke renume vary enormously factors can only be brought to book tion.ou purely medical grounds.

red-handed. Although "You may be told," she added, availably and will inchide land-girl-have been born to Mrs. Elsie according to the species, and there if caught

fore it is vital that every country the Kaffic boys are the chief offen-"that this question should be left to scaped gardens, wild, woodlands Kasper, resident of New Jersey. and a sea-water swimming pool: Their father, William Kasper, is abounding in deadly reptiles should ders, the born of the rogues gallery the medical profession. If you in-

young European.

2) sint leaving these things to the ita local snakes. Thus the Sao Paulo In lovers have purchased 300 acres of and his wife were born in Ger Institute deals chiefly with the rattles Baumstangs, deally arboreni sakes land for a comp

snake, the Fer-duLance and the Bush which he disentangled from their justice." The "quads" are in an incubatorer, that of Bombay with the roostx in a dense shrubbery, He Last year, at the meeting of the The National Sun Ed Air Asso- ciation reported that, among pro- and all are reported to be doing kenit and the cobrn, white South worked in pites darkness, and hul his British Medical Association, when Afrlen is chiefly concerned with the hands and feet bare, despite the fact a doctor had the temerity, to intro- fessional men, doctors furnished į well.

cobra, put adder, and the notorious that the grounds was littered with duce a certain resolution. Lord' thom the most recruits.

Mamba.

puff adders. He was sentenced to £1 Dawson of Penn súld that those "And the number of clergymen "One of the clergymen, is rector,

Snake parke to-day aro, fast being month's imprisonment, but, as the writes his Sunday sermons while assessed at their true value, not as director admits, ho merited the Vic-things much be loft to the people, he sits with a group of other nud-more ghin sights for the curlous, torn Cross rather than the punish. And the medical profcesion would Fists n't one of our retreats.”

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

Near Norwich a group of naturo-ja £·l-a-week railway labourer. He have an insiitute and park devoted to is six months he stole scores of medical profession you will not get

In our ranks, including one bishop; already runs into three figures," odded Miss Lili.

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