Kamal of the third class. She left a choice library counted among
the finest libraries in Islamic arts and antiquities. The lady was French, married to an Englishman.
In some villages of Holland people still shrink from being photographed and consider it, where a woman is concerned, a transgression against religion. If the photographer's lens catches them unawares, the women hasten to lift their clothes over their heads to hide their faces...
If a woman demands her political right in Switzerland, she is told: this is no affair of yours, my dear; confine your attention to church, child, and kitchen. Even so, every now and then a referendum is held to see whether she has become worthy of voting in the election of members of parliament. A referendum was lately held in Zurich, and a women's committee was formed to campaign for winning it. They distributed boxes of chocolates to the voters — without this counting as bribery under the law protecting the liberties — and the boxes were exquisitely wrapped and inscribed: Don't betray me, darling... The men ate the chocolates and betrayed them: the woman's supporters numbered 39 thousand and her opponents 134 thousand.
Peter Bowman, a farmer in Iberia, has succeeded in raising chickens without wings, which yield the greatest quantity of meat when slaughtered — this by means of a special kind of grain he fed to the chickens. He is now searching for another grain to produce for him a long-necked variety, because his wife, when eating chicken, prefers to devour the neck... And he affirms that wingless chickens need no coops.
An official luncheon was given in London for Marlene Dietrich on the occasion of her arrival in the capital. Marlene forgot that at official ban
quets smoking is not permitted until the toast to King George has been drunk, and she smoked a first cigarette, then a second after the roast — without noticing the fiery glances her host was directing at her. After the fruit was served he could bear it no longer; he rose, drank the King's toast, then turned to Marlene and said: Ladies and gentlemen, now you may smoke. Marlene blushed, coughed, hid her head in her hands, and apologized — but she did not put out the cigarette...
Katherine Love, in Birmingham, England, gave birth to a child before completing her thirteenth year, thereby breaking the record for early marriage. Madame Pearson had attempted the same and failed, because she was past fourteen. Says Katherine, full of pride: my baby looks like his father Joe — and Joe, her husband, is 18 years old.
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