1938-10-24 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

OCTOBER 24,

1938.

THE TWINS WHO HAVE

FORMED FOUR'

Even Husbands Didn't Part Them

They've said for years that one man and his wife under one roof may equal bliss, but that just one more woman in the same house may mean know what women are"!

"well, you

Now two 24-years-old London girls--they are twins -have knocked this theory endways by living the "per- fect married life" together in the same house with their respective husbands.

They are Annie and Eileen O'Brien, inseparable twins, now Mrs. Will Johnson and Mrs. Ronald Clarke, of Nightingale-lane, Bromley.

"You're crazy"-Annie and Elleen sot the same answer when friends were told of their dual honeymoon pians, "Crackers," said the friends

of the two grouma,

So you can tell what friends suid

when they calmly

proposed to

they

house.

Eileen

announced that. share the same

SAME HOUSE, SAME TEAPOT

and Annie and the two went on. grooms just smiled und

hired the same their way. They honeymoon car.

"But just wait till you pet back to the cynical critics said.

normal," Two newly wed women-and sisters

Alligator In Search Of A Diet

Archie, the alligator, 10-years. old, 6ft. long, and ugly, escaped from his tank in Brighton

of diel, he wandered nearly 100 yards through winding passages to the staff mess-room.

at that in the same house? No, Aquarium. In search of a change will not work."

Elleen

and Annie and the two They divided grooms still smiled. the house into two. Eileen had the front. Annie bad the back.

Even 80-year-old Frederick Brown, who has been at the the Aquarium for over 60 years, was mildly surprised when he Hal inrrived there.

They preferred it that way. Eileen quiet.

Annle ted

"But what of the kitchen?

cried the cynics.

There was Archle, banging his tall

sy,"

said Eilcen und Annie. in rage on the stone floor and mak-

Nature

In the Raw

A "nature in the raw" drama In the North Sea, which was watched by the crew of the Grimsby trawler Ravenna, WƏN described by them recently on their return to part.

Tunny is were the hunters: herring the hunted.

Skipper George Smith said: "A shoal of herring suddenly cone to the surface, hurried by the funny. The herring Came close to the ship for shelter. but when we hauled our nets the shoal moved away and a terrible slaughter began.

Nearly among

100 funny flashed Herring tho! were flicked into the air by the talls of the funny were mapped up by culis. The tummy war the guils between them must have consumed thousands of fish."

Do You Think She

Is Pretty ?

This fa Miss Vera Haal, and Americans think sho 14, the most beautiful girl in the United States. She has won many beauty con- tests. She was olected "Miss Venus"

In 1937, since then she has bocn "Afiss New York" and now sho 14 "Midi America." She started her carcer 110 af model, now she is the leader of a team of eight. glamour girlsį 10 hich 18 appearing In London.

BROKEN RULE CAUSED

TRAIN CRASH

Says Report Traffic Staff Failed

Immediate compliance with a rule of the London Passenger Transport Board would have prevented. the Charing Cross Underground railway smash on May 17, when six people were killed and 45 injured.

This is stated in the official report, issued recently, of Lieut.- Col. E. Woodhouse, the Ministry of Transport inspector who con- ducted an inquiry into the cause of the accident.

have their own sets of crocing the hissing sound which Indicates

a frustrated alligator's wrath. kery. They share the same teapot

Mr. Brown quietly closed the door at breakfast but when it comes to

arrival of other and awaited the cooking they go their own ways.

The rule quoted in the report says that when a signal fails They shop together. If one feels members of the staff. Meanwhile.

Archile's temper deteriorated. There the signalman or stationmaater at the station in the rear must tired the other takes the list.

was an hour's battle before he was be informed and must stop all trains proceeding towards the SHARE RENT-AND RADIO

persuaded (which is scarcely the proper word) into a box and carried signal and advise drivers accordingly. protesting back to his tank. NO OBJECTIONS Mr. Brown held broom.

"He broke two of them, snapping the handles clean through before we could box him," he said.

go each morning to market to get the day's supplies." they told "A largo cabbage does for the four of us, but the halves go into different

Pole"

me.

Annie's husband comes home at midday for a meal; Eileen's in the evening. To oblige, one of- ten cooks for the other. They share the house-but the par- Each couple pays half the rent. den is the common meeting-ground. They don't divide that.

"So far, so good," say the cintes, "but what of the radio? That can start trouble."

There is one set between the four. Eileen has

has it in her downstairs room, but there's a loud-speaker

connec

ilon to Will and Annie's room.

"We have the same tastes, and it's working out well," they said. "There is no question of it getting on our nerves."

Anole has a guest just now-an uncle from Co. Cork. She puts hitn up in her soare room, but next time It will be: Elleen's turn. -AND DRESS ALIKE

What else to silence the cynics? Well, they go to dances together, and to football matches and the ple- tures. And Eileen and Annie love to look alike in the same sort of dress.

It's been going on for two months now. It started as an experiment, change. but they don't want to "Couldn't be happler," they balls a reporter recently. "Young wives often feel lonely. We are never lonely.

told

So what, you cynies? "You must be heavenly twins," they say.

Pilot Exonerated

nut broken

1

"I don't really object to this sort

of thing, but I am perhaps getting a little old for alligator hunts. Yet ago I entered a tank here and, armed only with un Iron bor, separated two fighting alligators."

#t defences Anti-alligator Aquarium are to be strengthened.

Did You Know?

WIN

the

The primary cause of the ac-1 fcident was a "false-clear" signal indication being given, due to a wrong connection made during the previous night..

Shortly after leaving Charing! Cross, an cast-bound Crele traj collided with the back of an Ealing- Backing train which was standing at

signal in the tunnel midway be- tween Charing Cross and Temple stations.

INSPECTOR BLAMED

at

"PEP DRUG ” ON POISON

LISTS

London.

The Home Office has placed on the polson list "pep drug" benzedrine, which has been used by some undergraduates before their examinations with

very effective results.

Beazedrine, which was TL- cently discovered, speeds up the bruin and gives confidence but is harmful if taken intilacriminate-

ly.

HALF BRITAIN EATS WRONG FOOD

With nearly £1,805,000-one-third the national income -spent in Great Britain on food, nearly half the population fall below the British Medical Association standards of adequate nutrition in some respect or other.

the income is adequate, but educa. ton as to what are the best ways to expend the food budget is deficient.

The result of the survey suggests that between 12,000,000 and 22,000,- 000 people have the means to secure better health, but lack

the know-

Station Inspector Barnes was

This startling conclusion comes not from the rash reasoning Charing Cross and Col. Woodhouse. contends that after being warned off of an extremist politician or an economist ventilating his special the signal defect he "did not apprcfad, but from a survey made on clate the dangerous possibilities 01 a hitherto unknown scale of the the altuation."

"I have come to the conclusion dietetic habits of all classes of that Station Inspector F. 11. Barnes our population by a business had an opportunity of preventing man in touch with every section the accident, but that when con-of our national life. fronted with an unexpected situa- Sir William Crawford, K.B.E., ledge. That Judre's wig

A

not

tion he did not rise to the occasion intended as an aid to dignity, but to

in the manner to be expected of whose assist, dandies to catch their lovers'

a man in his position," states Col. Woodhouse. "For this reason eyes?

That some nurses believe that.

consider that he must bear some the father when a baby is born,

share of the responsibility for the It covered homes where the income often suffers exactly the same db-

accident." comfort as the wife?

That

Inspector Barnes, the report adds, ranged from over £1,000 a year to ten made

dried from

is 45 and has 28 years' service, dur-42 a week or less, and ranged from raspberry leaves is widely used cure Uls in the Eastern Counties ing the past 11 of which he has been Landon to Glasgow, and Newcastle

a station inspector; he has an ex- to Cardiff. and even in North East London?

cellent record. MOTORMAN CLEARED

That

believe

prople midwives transport Ahemselves broomsticka?

10

that

Un

book The People's Food Sir William Crawford points out (Heinemann 12s. 6d.) was published that, educational campaigns spon- recently, set afoot ins the winter sored by the producers of valuable

a beneficial. months of 1936-37 a survey of 5,000 foodstuffs could have

effect not only on the producing in- dustries but on the national health, and that the pivot on which physical tness depends is nearer the home kitchen than anything else.

homea.

WHAT DID YOU SPEND?

HOME COOKING

In the revival of horne cooking, he

H investigators made door to sees one of the greatest defences of

answers to such questions as

That boys under 14 are bored by thever the true explanation for door calls and got the housewives'] democracy and a barrier against the

"base" films; but that girls of 12 or 13 might be seriously affected?

That an ape's akull has been found In South Africa "combining characteristics of the ape with human milk teeth," but is

Returning a verdict of Accidental missing link?

increasing regimentation of the in- What time did you have break-dividual. fast yesterday?

Interesting points from the survey

that

What did your family drink for breakfast?

Whatever

mistake in wiring the signal, responsibility must be borne by

Installer E. Eeles." Signol

Bul. It is added, inasmuch us Eeles; was not competent to test the signal] controls after he had finished

week on the night's work this should undoubtedly

have been done by Chief Linesman" A. G. Beer, who must "consequently bear a

a large share of the respon- sibility."

not

These remarkable facts were lotd Death, the jury at a Gosport inquest to the British Association. recently exonerated the pilot of ant R.A.F. senplane which collided with

a best at Lee-on-Solent on Thursday, remained

stationary would have been all right,

everything

his

The failure of Motorman McLean, driver of the second train, to apply

confusion "I cons

How much did you spend lari milk, bread," sardines, bacon, meat, fruit, fish?

his Does your husband have midday meal at home, in restaurant, or take it with him; packed?

and fatally injured two fishermen. The South Hampshire deputy cor- the brake, was due to a momentary search was that although from Board:

The motive for this arduous re

The victims were Thomas Bannis-

of the tall light of the

Ha of Trade Agures the total

quantities ler. aged

75, of Adcinide-grove, oner, Mr. Gerald Worner, said: East Cowes, and his stepson. Thomas think it would have been wiser to train in front of him with a signal

select a spot for landing considerably and, in view of the sameness of the of foodstuffs consumed are easily dis- Henry Kemp, aged 48,

two lights, a moment's hesitation was covered and limited experiments on

animais and selected groups Pilot Sergeant Clifford Bond suid farther away. Then, if anytunk not unnatural. On those groundsons have proved exactly what'

have a much

to one side of it. If the boat hadi chance to alter your direction,"

BABY'S GAS PAINS,

Colic and many other children's all- ments aro frequently a case of too much acid in the stomach. Relieve the pain, neutralize the acids, restore normal health by giving them

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Peak hour for breakfast is # a.m, and the amount of bacon consumed at it is a direct measure of social standing.

"Elevenses" popularity.

are

increasing

Cry

At least 50 per cent. of husbands take their midday meal at home.

Coffee still lags behind tea as

the national beverage; and

Beer drinking in the home ap pears to have been curtalled by the Improved facilities offered in clubs and public-houses.

The British public, though de- Anitely carnivorous, is shown by the sibility for the accident.

there is no way of finding exactly survey to rank fourth only among "Perhaps the most regrettable what classes of the population are the world's meal eaters, and sixth feature of the accident," says Col securing such dieta.

among milk consumers. Woodhouse, was the failure on the part of the traffic staff to take KNOWLEDGE LACKING preventive action, for which there It has long been known that was ample opportunity. "Responsiblity for the accident lation are inadequately nourished must be shared with Chief Linesman from lack of means to buy proper Beer by Station Foreman Foskew. food, there are other strata in which

"I um of opinion that negligence

of which the latter was guilty is

though some 8,090,000 of the popu G.B.S. On

more serious than that day occanlons of a train which is sufficiently dis-1

by urges a method of marking the back!

Beer, for on none of three

wastinctive to be immediately recognis on which a dangerous fallure reported to him did he take the able as such. The board should be trouble to follow up the matter per-requested to report their final pro-| Sonally and assure himself that posals without undue delay. remedial

being taken."

measures were

Porter Hopkins, who was told by Foskew to felephone Charing Crons and who substituted the meaningless Information that a signal wit "work- Ing sluggishly," a looked upon "as for his care. some blame

HOLLYWOOD "TRASH"

When I began work-In the theatre, It was destrable that all trans the old provincial stock companies verso glans should be of the safety supporting strolling stars had perish- variety, and he was glad to reported and were replaced by touring that the board had decided to sub-companies from London, which be- come staler and rtaler and cheaper stitute safety glass, by degrees for and cheaper, until the cinen, with the plate-glass now used.

Its magnificently costly productions, Col.

concludes with struck them dead. Woodlouse deserving

reference to the improved type of

"Then the trash with which Holly-

Jessness."

slock now being brought into wood deluged us forced the dramatic- rolling uns by the board, including steel ally starved provinces to revive the TAIL LIGHTS CRITICISED

Cal. Woodhouse criticians the weak bodywork, fafety glass, and inde- theatre for themselves and snap their ness of tall lights on trains, and pendent lighting.

́fingers"at" Hollywood and London."

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