1947-05-03 — Page 4

BOY OR GIRL?

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IT IS STILL A PUZZLE

(By a Medical Correspondent).

PRINCESS JULIANA. I was present recently at a London mother of three daughters, hospital when a surgeon performed

know little about

the Caesarean section operation on two women in succession. For each

it was the final chancesafe chance

was hoping recently that her new baby would be a boy.

We do not know why some of a baby, families seem

One had sons, the other daughters. to run to boys, Each was longing for the opposite. others to girls,

SWIFT OPERATION We are also opt to forget that

The operation is nawift and more boys are born than

tirls, dramatic one, the baby belug born though more girls survive

into in a twinkling of an eye. The whole adolescence.

team theatre

held their breath. determination. It is still a matter surgeon, or 1 shall catch it." We sex Hope they are both Jucky," said the

mother of daughters got another one. no. The all hoped with him. But The mother of sons had the baby boy. know one Harley-street WANTED AN HEIR Ryaneenlogist who longs for a baby One instance comes to my mind girl, but can only produce strapping of a well-known British family who boya,

If he wanted no heir-the Fitzwilliams,

knew the secret of nex- have manged to produce at determination I'm sure he would least une baby girl for himself.

of luck.

All sorts of theories have been advanced and tried out from time to time, but gynaecologists will tell you that so far no theory Is reliable.

and then a 900,

Lady Fitzwilliam had four daughters Her eldest daughter became the Countess of Wharncliffe. She bad

four daughters and then a so Ex- plain ? I can't.

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Years ago a doctor called Lumley Dawson had a theory that the right ovary produced only boys and the Jeft ovary girls,

He tried out his theory with con- alderable success on many people, among them the late Czarina Russia, who had only daughters,

Talk to Miss E. G. Dare, matron Maternity Hospital, who now thinks of the famous Queen Charlotte's

about retiring after spending 40 years of her life in hospitals. She has been asked by countless women over the years, her opinion of this and that theory of sex-determina- tion.

know. It's

What does she say? · of

"Rubbish!

We don't st a matter of luck."

As his patient she got her son. Another patient was the wife of a wealthy Indian. She tried not his theories and also became the mother of a son.

WOMAN'S METHOD Another exponent of annilar theory. Lady Erskine, is still at the age of 74 carrying on her work,, and i recently tried to get in touch with Princess Jullana.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1947.

THE PARKERS

WHENEVER I ANSWER THE *PHONE~ IT'S THE DOOR-

·BELL..

~TAND WHEN I ANSWER THE DODA-ITS USUALLY THERIONG

«SO I'LL FIX A WHRCHING

GREAT KNOCKER

AND THE MEXY RING IS BOUND TO BE THE

'PHONE Seet

by

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HOUGES

THERE'S SOMEONE AT THE DOOR

Mrs. Smith: Train-wrecker,

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spy, and Nazi-killer

SIDNEY

RODIN

OU would not suspect that the prim little woman who comes out of the newly-built house, 61, Eastfield- road, Waltham Cross, Essex, wheeling her 16-month and four-month-old bables in a. second-hand pram-she couldn't get a new one-with shopping basket on the hand- rail, is "our trusty and well-beloved Mar-

Frances Smith" who

once . blazed away, with a Sten gun at Germans hunting her down as મા secret agent in France.

ELECTRONIC guerite Diana

WATCH DOG

In her handbag Mrs Smith has her

shopping list-a little different from the past. For six months she carried code mes- ages and radio sets in her suitcase through

Science has turned up now There are a great many women with an electronic "watch dog." Erakine's method, and have the It is a machine called a "micro- desired male heir to the family wave unit," and combines the the German lines.

Britain

wiie kwear by Lady

name to prove It,

I was talking to one of them the characteristics of both the elec other day. She wanted a son, went tric eye and radar. It can "see" through walls and. around corners, reports United Press,

to Lady Erskine. Eventually she and one.

She sent eight. of her friends to Lady Erskine. Some wanted daughters, the others sons. They all gut what they wanted.

Lady Erskine's theory is compli- cated and I do not propose to sel it out in full.

It is based on the 28-day rhythm of a woman's life.

Lady Erskine argues that the lett overy functions one month, the right evary another and then there is u third month when a child cannot be conceived.

She worked out a separate ruling for each patient, which had to be followed exactly.

A friend of mine breeds cows and horses and tried the same theory on

them with success.

However, the medical world re- malus scepticai.

SIDE GLANCES

The practient applications of this

by means device, which "sees"

high-frequency. radio waves, many, Its inventors say.

of

are

For instance, the machine, operat- ing on ordinary house current, can

door or thraw a beam through a around a corner. If an intruder gets in the way of that bears, he causes n warning bell to ring.

a

The machine resembles large

It weighs flashlight.

only four pounds. The entire unit, comprising antenna tube, circuit, transformer,

be held in one and reflector, can hand.

demon-

Units are being used for stration purposes in schools and col- leges, where they are being used for tenching fundamental characteristics ot radio and light waves.

COPE, 1947 BY RÍA SERVICE, NC, T. N. RES., V. B. PAT. OPT

By Galbraith

"The boss says he hired her for her diligence and intelli- gence, but she hasn't a bad figure at that, has she?"

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CLUES DOWN.

1. Brian's taken ag Intellectual

turn.

Actors ? No, just companiona.. Potted by the householder, linced by, the cricainst,

As she wheels her pram to the shops she is using her keen brown eyes to spy out some apples for Peter, the elder child.

They are hard to find in Waltham Cross, not enough to give Peter one a day, as she would like, she says,

30-MILE WALK

To sabotage job

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About two and a half years the same keen eyes spled out Ger- mon strongpoints, and the Бате slender but sturdy legs walked 30 miles in the dark so that she could aid a sobolage team blow up a Ger- man troop train.

The most exciting thing in her life now in to watch her children grow

up.

In May 1944 the most exciting thing was to be parachuted at night into German-occupied Burgundy- "I had made only one practice jump before. but I landed In some brambles that night and only scratched my face."

then,

For six months French-speaking Miss Marguerite Knight, as she was lived on her nerves working under cover with the Maquis, dis- tributing vital despatches after, the Allied invasion, escaping death by slicer luck when 700 German soldiers closed in on her and her companions.

But it all ended before 1945 and she was back in Britain. released from service.

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Croix-de-Guerre

M. B. E.

For much has happened since A little proudly she pointed to the Marguerite Knight became Mrs second-hand armchairs she and her Smith. She has had two bables and husband had re-covered--and to the has found a house.

chandelier he had made out of #1 wire, best- Peter was born in September 1945 plece of wood, some

four ash- while her husband was still in the quality note paper and

trays. Navy. Then David was expected while she was still living with her

It might have been any postwar mother-in-law. With her husband worlying-class mother talking:

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due to be demobbed and resume his like the mental fight of making do, job as a River Lea police Inspector, but there are many things that seem she just had to find a house.

a shame.

"I knew Dayld would be born in September 1946, but where would he be born?"

For months she searched Brox- bourne, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross and Enfeld Highway for somewhere to live. Estate agents, builders, the local councils were all visited in

vain,

At last she found some new houses -£1,270-half bullt In Waltham Cross. Two were left untalten. She paid £50 deposit on the spol. She and her husband had about £400.

It was enough for the full down "payment" and some furniture,

but you can't get cups and saucers. "You can buy plenty of milk jugs, "have been looking everywhere for a mixing bowl for puddings. For two months I had to use. a milk bottle to roll pastry, because I couldn't get a rolling pin.

"The extra soap ration for bables stops at one year, but that is just the age they start crawling and ret twice as dirty.

LITTLE TIME

To Go Shopping

"I would go with less food to have wits end to -do-my-washing. more soap. I am sometimes at my

"This annoys me, too.

You pay If I waited two years I might get o high prices for things not worth it.

falr

But now can I wait so price. long? I just have to buy, and I feel couldn't have all utility. It would very dissatisfied.

She bought a utility suite for the bedroom, and wandered far ofleld picking secondhand odds and ends to fil Misa

the other rooms-"I

In December 1944 she marcied Sub-Lieutenant Erle Smith, of the Royal Navy. Special Agent Knight became plain Mrs Smith.

CLOSED BOOK

To Mrs Smith

The 24-year-old "peasant girl" who cycled through the villages of Burgundy on a score of hazardous missions with false Identity docu- ments, drew her ration book and

clothing coupons, and became--just another British

wife,

Not until recently did the neigh- bours learn that Mrs Smith somebody rather special,

was

that

Then it was announced France had awarded her the Croix- do-Guerre for "exceptional courage." and the King had granted "our trusty and well-beloved Marguerite” the dignity of an -MBE. And her story was told in the newspapers.

But to Mrs Smith that story is lite an adventure Book; thrilling to read. but closed now. shut up like the Croix-de-Guerre

and the MBE

medal in their presentation cases rt- posing on her sideboard.

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IN the Breitton Crocword the

clue.

black

squares and mimbera bave to be glled in as well as the wards. Four black square, and three numbers have. been filed in to give you a start..

The pattern of black squares su symmetrical, so that for overy. black quare in the top left-hand corner of the puzzle, there must- be a black square in the corre spanding position in ench, of the, other three corners of Lim puzzle. If you fill in the black squares corresponding to those already given 'you wil tavo fourteen.

By studying, the elle numbers, you can build up the pattern of black squares RE Jött wolva the clues. Lemember, no words of lem than three letters are used,

LAST WEEK'S. SOLUTION

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have looked like a barrack room."

Weekly she rang the builders urg- ing, them to speed the house. By May 1940 it was ready, and so David was born at 01, Eastfeld-road, his very own house.

You couldn't get

that word:

am so busy in the house that

I have only time to go out once or twice a week to do a little shopping.

"By the time I get to the shops most of the little fuxuries, such as cakes and fruit, are gone. My but- cher and grocer are good to me and deliver at the door.

this wartime Once my husband and I tried to heroine to say there are any heroles "see a film. But I always bath David about being дл nusterity-time at dix, and when we got to the housewife. She could never use cinema there was

such

a queue we couldn't get in. So we came home." Does she ever crave the exclic- ment she once lived on? She says: "I had enough to last me a lifetime. "Anyway, I can always listen in to Dick Barton. That's the unly radio programme I get time for."

"I like a good fight, whether it's with a gun in your hand, or whether It's just against circumstances, but I honestly think my present job as a housewife is more exacting."

Russians In Berlin Holding City's Best Real Estate Sites

A study of the real estate registry in Berlin disclosed that the Soviet Union, through its manifold subsidiaries, may become the largest single property owner in Berlin; states John Thompson, correspondent for the Chicago Tribune..

Using German marks, which centre of the town. Next In Im- cost them, nothing, the Russians portance is the Weissensee location have invested heavily in sump, which now owns 40 percent of all of 14 big Soviet stock corporations, tuous villas. But their principal industry in the Soviet zone. interest is in income-producing"

Among the buildings. purchased properties,

by the Sovicia. are the Guaranty Two of the most recent real and Credit Bank, on Jaeger Street, calate transactions,' which began Russian Control Council House,

the Inst summer, tist cut new Soviet on insil Street, which shelters the owners the Soric Ministry of Soviet military headquarters, and Foreign Trade, the Soviet Film the huge house on Linien Street Company, the Soviet-German Trans- portation

Company. In capital in Berlin last whithin

where the Soviet Commander-in- Calef

has his headquarters. A large number of undamaged houses on Beriln's famous Friedrich Street are also now Soviet properly, In addition, there are new. Russian owners for scores of warehouISES, theatres, large stores and blocks of Bats,

of 10,000,000 marks, and the Soviet German Leather Industries, Ltd., with a capital of 20,000,000 marks.

The Guaranty and Credit Bank, organlaed with Hussları capital, appears in many enses as a Ger- mon agency for Austrian buyers. If the records of the Estate regis

Forty-five percent of the buildings try are any criterion, the Russians bought by the Russians are in the have really moved in for a long stay.

mother.

Just Received

EX-STOKER'S EYESIGHT RESTORED

Ex-Stoker Ronald Jetson of the Royal Australian Navy travelled, from Australia to Wales to try and regain his eye- Sight, shattered during war ser- vice. -

Aged 23 then, he was one of the Burvivors of the Australian cruiser' Perth, sunk in the Indian Ocean in March 1942. Picked out of the sea

by the Japanese, he spent over three years in a prisoners' camp In Burma.

When the war ended he went home to Melbourne. But his eyesight was Kuiling as the result of war Injuries and privationa, and soon he became totally blind. The Australian naval nuthorities decided to send Jetson to Britain to be operated upon by Dr Tudor Thomas, famous eye speciallat.

. After a period at St. Dunstan's, London, he was transferred to the Rookewood Military Hospital, near Cardiff, und after an operation his eyesight was partially restored. The surgeons, however, were not satisfied with his progress. He was anxious about his wife, back home in Melbourne, The authorities decided to bring Mrs Jetson to Britain.

Bandages Removed

But there was a difficulty-she was an expectant mother, and the re- gulations prevented her travelling by, ship. Then, the International Red Cross Society intervened, secured Д passage for her in a Lancaster plane. ', In three days she WOR at her husband's bedside in Wales. Soon their baby, a son, was born.

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But the father who had undergone la second óperation grieved because he still could not see. Recently the surgeons operated for a third time. Next day, Mrs Jetson was there when they removed her husband's bandages. He cried out, joyously; "Billie, I can see you and the baby."

Now, ex-Stoker Jetson's eyesight is recorded as 50 percent normal and is still stendily improving.

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