A loft length of rail designed by George Stephenson over 100 years ago for the Leicester and Swnnnington Railway, now part of the L.M.S. system, has been presented to the Sooth Kensington Science Museum by Sir Josiah Stamp, chairman of the L.M.S. I read that in the Memba tribe of I’hodcsia it is the wife ami her mother who count iu the home and little notice is ever taken of the husband. Slowly, but surely, Western ideas are sweeping ;he world.
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Evening Star, Issue 22365, 15 June 1936, Page 14
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