1947-03-01 — Page 9

New York Round-up

By L. J. Miller

CUVING your dog the come-

hither is made easy by a new gadget. It is a new canine control for eripatelle pupa, consisting of a leash of nickel silver wire ting Into a smart plastic case which hauts an automalte reel, like " Bshing rest.

Fido in free to draw the full ten feet of leash subject only to his mistress thumb-operated brake the reel.

When the brake is released pup is drawn back by a spring.

on

the

There's also a dog anglior. -1)

a chrome and enamel device with a apearmint which can be stuck into the

rope revolves

Kreutd. The

about a tangle-proof swivel.

Or you can entertain pup with a perlarining model Airedale.

his head

#L

This fleecy-coated toy terrier will shake

Whien offered But hold it gent his nose and he snaps at it.

plantic bone,

It's all done with magnets,

ABSENT-MINDEDNESS

The year 1940 Was 15 year of strange absent-mindedness in sub-

ways.

Among (2,000 articles lost there by passengers were:

MISS

ELLEN WILKINSON, Minister of Education, whose sudden death on February 6 is the subjret of an inquest,

CURE FOR

COLDS

By A Medical Correspondent been EVERY other person you meet the

"An urn which had junt filled at a crematorlum.

"A six-foot replica of the Statue

day seems to have a cold. The best way to prevent yourself entching n cold is to indulge in deep breath- "Several bowls of goldish, engeging exercises and at least one sharp of canaries, assorted fiddles, and 200 walk, a day. sels of false teeth.

of Liberty.

A few dozen crutches' and wooden legs suggested that miracles he under Broadway as well as above 11.

MAMMOTH Martinis

The chill of the Arctic kept the drinks good at a birthday party in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

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Avold crowded places as much as travel In possible.

you must crowded buses and tubes, make habit of giving yourself M. and 13,

drops. They put up an antiseptic burrsier, against infection.

Once you get a cold ask your doctor he can give you penicillin inhalations. They may work magi

na effect, as some cold or have germs are not affected by penicillin

A big New York publisher-ajapparently, fabulous gentleman who es stunts If you are running a temperature

thought up this one for his guests.

go to bed

to bed and stay there. The great He wanted something unique for thing is to make yourself sweat the Jus birthday anci Pan-American cold out. Open your window but Airways provided it-a chunk of lee wrap yourself up with blankets and Bown in from Juneau, Alaska, withhol-water bottles, take two aspirins which to mix cocktails,

(10 grains), a drink of hot milk and stay put until the temperature is

normal for at least 24 hours.

The ice had been split out from The Mendenhall Glucter, which, guests were reminded, was n 8,000,000 years old.

They WILL go to work The reason so many colds turn to

The guests declared they could detect a faint flavour of maminothaumonia is that the patients will

In the martinly.

NO RATS IN BELFRY

received

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get up and go back to work while they still have an evening rise of temperature. That is a sure sign that there is still some infection

a debilitat present and,

a cold

Mayor Woodall Rodgers, of Dallas, Texas, who la heading a campaigning thing, they lay themselves open to raise funds to ratproat a local to much more serious complications. Presbyterian Church,

We want to get out of the habit cheque and a letter from Mr and of saying: "I've only got a cold."

of Mrs Murray Stratton, of New York, We ought to say: "I'm a source

"We rend of the campaign in a danger to myself and the community, New York-papar," they wrole. We asked ourselves, Would we want to see rats in your beautiful church? We should ay not. You see, we were married there."

must hide myself away and get myself better before I mingle with my fellow men and women again."

Then colds would not spread any- thing like so rapidly or so virulently.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1947.

THE POCKET CINDERELLA

OR more than 20 years Miss Ellen Wilkinson played Cinderella in the parlia mentary panta.

The spotlight shine upon her ac-, cidents, her clothes, her cars, her Bs and her enthusiasms. But, despite long und faithful service, it was not until July 1945 that her Prince Charming, the Socialist Party. fuited her to try on the glass slipper of Cult Ministerial' office. It fitted surprisingly well.

of Education, Ellen As Minister

inidale Wilkinson, in her

fifties, seemed to have reached maturity, Wide experience of public life at last cave depth to her bright mind and understanding to her worm heart.

TER ather was a cotton operative. who later became an insurance

agent.

At her birth the Wilkinson family was desperately poor, so poor that adequate medical treatment was out of the question,

consequence, Whitinson wrote later, her mother was subjected to "guntaing suffering until the day she died.

i Miss

Her father encouraged her to read, She won her first scholarship at the

age of 11, and from that time pald for her own exlucation in scholarships until she left Manchester University, with a history degree,

IT was a patchy schooling. At 14. under her father's guidance, she was reading Huxley and Darwin; at if she was deep in Bertson. But she only read books she liked. ignoring some, subjects altogether.

"Even to-day," she wrote a few years ago, I had to add ua on my fingers.

Occasionally she was taught by a young schoolmaster called Frederick Marquis, who, as L.rd Woolton, pre- sented her with an honorary doc- torate at Manchester University a few months ago.

For a school debate Ellen was told to put the Marxist case. She mugged up the books, and won the day with the help of a witty retort to some heckling by the head boy, a C servative, From that Cate she championed Socialism with growing

fervour.

IN 1915, when in her early twenties,

N

she became national organiser for the National Union of Distribu- tive and Allled Workers. In 1923 she was elected to Manchester City Council as a Communist; but she left the party shortly afterwards.

Next year she won a parlia- mentary seat for Labour at Middles- brough. At that time slie was the only woman Socialist MP in House.

the

Mies Wilkinson gave them

A

Although a fellow member com- plained, "She speaks as a housewife pleasant surprise. She did not bring addressing a series of recalcitrant platform prejudices into her White- husbands, bor sincerity, wit and in- hall office. Believing ardently in exhaustible appetite for work soon the need for improving the standarct rajned her the respect of the Com- of universal education in Britain she mons. In speech after speech she applied horself with typical zest to

practical menstures of reform.

-By- Charles

Wintour

championed the down-trodden, the the housewiyea and unemployed, even women police.

She made strenuous and success- ful efforts to increnar the recrult- ment of trained teachers. She fought bitterly for more school-building

In her Inst interview, she could report on the results of her efforts: "We have Got the teacher. Wo are also getting the buildings."

RAISS WILKINSON M

was winning the respect of the teachers. She never lost he hold on the affections of the public. Her plin DURING the General Strike this speaking about bread rating. in militant, ve-foot poeltet Pa- October, 1945, may have camer # alonaria showered advice and en- Cabinet rumpus. But her forecast couragement on mass audiences all came true. over the country.

The strain was too much. In 1927 she had a nervous breakdown and was ordered to rest.

Recently she denied reports that she might resign owing to ill-health. At all costs she was determined that to-day's children should not suffer the defective schooling watch

Bhu and her sisters had received.

On her return she devoted more time to Journalism. Possessing a biting wii and fluent pen, articles, impressions, even a novel (serialised in the Daily Express) flowed forth. cand spare such n plain-spoken

shc

OR the Evening Standard I wrote a series of Bo-Peurs of Politicians which created something of a furore at Westminster. Some

of her judgments still bear repell-

ties:

W. J. Brown: The eternal excla- mation mark.”

Mr Dalton: "Thinks it is enormous fun to treat the entire Tory Party with the air of a super-dowager glaring through high-powered for-

Knettes."

The cost was heavy. The notion

devoted servant,

CANADA

WARS ON

CANCER

FROM New

Surrealist looks at Macboth

Lady Macbeth with a Botticelli hair-do.

Yurk hos come a

copy of Shakerpenre's Macbeth illustrated by surrealist Salvador Dali. Above is reproduced his view of Lady Macbeth; below is

a portion of another Dar daustralion,

Doubleday, the publishers, have

MQ

by Professor E . Kit- tredge There are un tricku hem.

Dall shed:

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baht Shakespeare, Some of his illus

tra long are "araght" drawings, Canada's first move toward a

Most

of complicated

ftrem co-ordinated campaign against Dail's impression of the witches

Mr Attlee: "Is the kind of man that Premiers like to have about cancer, the second highest cause them....the Ident Minister without of death in the Dominion, has Portfolln."

been taken with the formation

In 1935, elected MP for Jarrow,

she took up the cause of the dis- tressed shipbuilding industry with a' considerable measure of success.

scene;

of a National Cancer Institute,NO

BAR AGAINST

The Institute, formed before the WHITE RUSSIANS

conclusion of a recent conference The Australian Legation in Shang- bringing called by the Federal HealUs Depart-hai has issued a statement denying Baldwinment and attended by representa-

over

Later she succeeded in about the defeat of the Government on a chap vote equal pay for women civil servanti,

In 1990, when her Hire Purchase Bill passed through the Commons. she received a general ovation.

During the war the assisted Her- bert Morrison at the Ministry of Home Security, carhing the friendly title of "The Shelter Queen" for her ceaseless efforts to make the life of the tube dwellers more tolerable.

tives of the Federal and Provincial health departments, medical men and research bodies, will strive to en- curage the early treatment of the disease and endeavour to stimulate and co-ordinate research work.

Dr T.C. Routley, Canadian Medi- cal Asssociation secretary, said con cor was taking a toll of between 12- 000 and 14,000 Ilves every year in Canada, being sccond only to heart disease as a cause of death.

AST year her appointment to the

will not "We

be satisfied with Ministry of Education aroused the cancer war until we have ex- perturbation among British educs-hausted every avenue of approach," tionalists.

said Routley.-Associated Press.

VIGNETTES

HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS.. D'YA REMEMBER THAT MRS. NEEDY WHO LIVED OVER ON GAY STREETS

WELL

OF

LIFE

OF COURSE I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOUR SHUSBAND

GETS BUT IT SEEMS

TO ME.

Eko

"I'LL ONLY BE

GOLE A

COUPLE OF HOURS/

DON'T.

IT

THIS

WAY?!

a charge made in Brisbane that It was discriminating against White Russians in favour of refugee Jews

in China to in granting permits enter Australia.

The charge was attributed to An- drew Clark, director of the Russian and European Christian Mission in Brisbane. The Legation quoted him Russians in as saying that White China were getting no answer D only Jewn can enter Australia." their applications and "It seems that

The Legation said that Australia refuses to receive any persona whe cannot provide proof of their ability to support themselves for reason- able period after their entry-Asso- ciated Press.

All. Double, double, toll and

trouble?

Fire burn, and couldrón bubble. "Third Witch: Scale of dragon,

tooth of wolf,

Witch's mummy, maw and gulf." Of the ravin'd salt-sen shack, Root of hemlock, digg'd I' the

dark.

Study Dali's illustration and you can pick nut logrcdients of thin foul mixture.

What does all prove? It proves that Shakespeare was the first Sur-

realist of them all.

""

"Neighbours"

What, will these hands ne'ar be clean?

BY KEMP JRZEDWAR

**THAT KIND OF PAUITS

NO GOOD FOR AA JOB LIKE YOURS...

NOW, THE WAY I

DO... LOOK.

I'LL SHOW

YOU WHAT TO

DO.

DO YOU HAVE A NEIGHBOR. THAT BOUNCES

IN THE AQUENT YOUR HUSBAND LEAVES FOR THE OFFICE...AND WHILE YOU TRY TO WASH UP THE DIRTY DISHES QUE DISHES UP THE DIRT.

'GAB

3

?

GAB

GAB

GAB

GAB "

"I'LL BE OVER

AS SOON

AS I CAN...

OR, DO YOU HAVE ONE WHO FOLLOWS YOU AROUND LIKE A BUSTED GARTER TRYING TO PRY OUT ALL YOUR PERSONAL AFFAIRS.

AND PERHAPS YOU HAVE ONE THAT

PARKS AER KIDS OU YOU A COUPLE

OF TIMES A WEEK.

I'VE BEEN A GOOD WIFE

TO HIM AND HEAVEN KNOW. A NEW SINK ISN'T MUCH TO

ASK...HE NEVER!

WANTS TO DO AINTING !

WANT AND HE

STAVE OUT

AN

ER.

MAYBE YOU'VE GOT A NEIGHBOR VIO KNOWS ALL

ABOUT HOW TO DO EVERYTHING... AND WANTS TO BOSS

ANY JOB YOU HAVE TO DO HE ALSO ADVISES ON HOW TO TREAT YOUR

HOW AUCH WOULD A LAND LIKE THIS COST?

́YOU SHOULD SEE THE PLACE A FRIEND OF

OIRS REMODELED.. PERFECTLY

BEAUTIFUL NOTHAL LIKE THUS OF

WIFE

COULD BE YOU HAVE À NEIGHBOR WHO BORROWS YOUR. SUGAR OR AINTING ELSE HOT HAILED DOWN AND THEN STICKS" AROUND GABBING WHEN YOU MUST GO OUT. Endgre Syndicats,

THEN THERE'S THE NEIGHBOR. THAT DUMPS ALL HER TROUBLES IN YOUR LAD WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST ENCOURAGEMENT HER SYMPTOMS, HER_ "KIDS", HER HUSBAND'S AND HER NEIGHBORS FAULTS".

THEY HAVE REAL PINE PANELLING!

C-YOU COULD HAVE A NEIGHBOR, THAT WANTS TO

·KROW HOW MUCH EVERYTHING COSTS, WAY YOU DONT HAVE A WASHING MACHINE ......... AND BRAGS ABOUT. THE WONDERFUL JONES ALL HER FRIENDS LIVE IN.