SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928.
THE
IN THE CARDROOM.
TO KEEP YOUNG.
FRENCH STUDENTS.
SAVED BY DOGS.
WHY GOOD PLAYERS LOSE.
LIGHT LIVING, SLEEP, AND HEART.
STERN FIGHT FOR EDUCATION.
HOW DIET REMEDY WAS DISCOVERED.
CHINA MAIL,
WOMEN.
NOT SWEETHEARTS MERELY."
FILM PRODUCER EXPLAINS.
PSYCHOLOGY.
WISER NOWADAYS
The revised and rewritten, edi-j
the many
PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA."-
DENTAL BOARD.
11
„LADIES' 'HAIR DRESSERS.
Its the way you
HOME REGULATIONS VALID have your HAIR
OR NOT?
ANNUAL FEE PAYMENT.
of
wen added as a sort of secular aain than can be permitted to the totermine. It has taken an im-irst National in "An Affair of been to commence prosecutions if|
mouth.
VARIED OCCUPATIONS.
I remarked in a previous article
Paris. Among the "new poor" Sufferers from pernicious "We can no longer overlook the twriter Hugh Elliot in the "Even-ion of Dr. Hopewell-Ash's "Middle of France to-day few classes offer anemia throughout the world fact in films, fiction and stage dentists are bound to pay an an A test action to decide whether ing Standard") that on many hands Age, Health and Fitness" might be more inspiring examples of cour have cause to bless the name of plays that real-life relationship nual fee for the retention there is no such thing as a correct and the basis of a series of New ge and self-denial for the sake of Dr. George Minot, of Harvard between the sexes has changed their names on the register of hid, for players must be guided by Year's resolutions by those when ideal than those that are to University, U.S.A., whose patient radically since woman achieved dentists, or whether by refusing their knowledge of their partner wish to become healthy (and happy) je found among the university research resulted in proving that what is often called her 'free-to do.
Despite and their adversaries. If a player exagenarians. The author showe students.
so they are disqualified a simple diet of cooked ox-liver dom," declares Al Rockett, noted from practising dentistry, came is known to be an overcaller, bid that we are much wiser than our forts that are being made to was the long-sought remedy. film producer.'
beiore Mr. Justice Astbury in the him up for a double; if he is known Victorian ancestors in the all-ssist them, hundreds of these The severe form of bloodless- Rockett, who became famous as Chancery Division. to be an underealler, bid him out
Important matter of preserving oung men and women, lawyers,ness known as pernicious anæmia producer by filming, with his
hysical and mental effeieney after octors, and professors of the our puzzled doctors. It is abrother, Ray Rockett, that great question was whether certain re- Mr. Maugham, K.C., said the Lo that he cannot play the hand.
If one of your adversaries is very orty-for they settled down to the uture are leading a hand-to-aircase that fastens on persons, human document of the screen. gulations made by the Dental good and the other very bal, try tơ langerom, comforts of a sedate south existence, in which much usually in middle life, so slowly Abraham Lincoln," is now Board were valid or were ultra hid so that the bad player should middle-age, to which whiskers were nore is demanded of hand and as to make the causes difficult to First National producer. He has vires.
made another notable picture for play The combined hands. Also, a difficult position, try to place the xdge. As for primitive man, he lead with the bad player rather than as old and broken-down at forty,
The reason is that they or their the wood player, for the bad player and, deposed from the leadership of arents have undertaken a task in the more likely to lead a wrong is tribe, was left to starve, knock which in these post-war days is ad on the head, or chosen as theyond their ordinary means, and Dealing with partners is an art piece de resistance at the Feast of he result is often acute distress in itself. To criticise a bad part- Succession. In the Middle Ages.
nd hardship. A highly-placed ner who is doing his best is not again, senile decay seems to have iniversity authority, discussing only had form but and bridge. It hogun before Afty. "When dully in bad form because he is as much routine included the swinging of entitled to his amusement as any giant swords and the wearing of one else indeed more so, because mmensely heavy armour, he pays more for it. It is badlamp, draughty, and ill-lit castles bridge because criticism is likely to gave rheumatisni a perpetual home make him. nervous and play worse the 'expectation of life as the in- surance offices call it was not very bright as one got into the forties. Again, with plague mor or less rampant and sanitation un task to keep really good health even as long as that." Longer life and better health are perhaps the great est achievements of modernity, and If this process of improvement i
card.
than before.
whilst
'The practice of the Board had nense toll of life.
Dr. Minot stumbled on a cure the Follies," which is the current they thought that persons were luring experiments he undertook attraction at the Odeon Theatre, practising as dentists without a thanks-offering for the saving with Lewis Stons, Billie Dove and right because their names had f his own life.
Lloyd Hughes in the featured been removed from the register. Diabetes, another death-dealing roles.
On that interesting and, to the liness, which had taken toll of The picture is an honest and Board, vital question, different humanity for 1,800 years, had human treatment of modern viewa had been entertained by the he situation the other day, point- fastened on Dr. Minot. The years domestic love and financial pro- Law Officers in England and in d out that the great majority of passed as he waited, in agony of blems in the form of tense and Scotland. university students are drawn mind and body for the end. The enjoyable entertainment. Those rom the middle and lower-middle physician became the powerless virtues, Rockett claims, should be lasses from those classes which nyman. There seemed no hope. jave been most hardly hit by His life's work seemed finished. Jost-war economic conditions.
Insulin. their parents in very many cases
Suddenly Dr. F. G. Banting, 4 ire Civil Servants, teachers, bank lerks, superior personnel of rail-Canadian doctor, of Toronto, who returned to research work after way service, and others, among
nan, announced to a grateful coated classes.
orld that a cure for diabetes was found.
the very foundation "of any film plot or story that purports to give a faithful picture of the life of our times.
"VARSITY "RAGS.”
VICE-CHANCELLOR ISSUES WARNING.
for that appellation unless he is own, it must have been a harc what are known as the black serving in the war as an infantry powers concerning men that she NOT ONLY DISGRACE
Definitions of a first-class bridge player are many and various; but it is certain that no one is qualified invariably suave and gentle with bad bad partners. With him a
than with partner plays better other people, and the net result is
that percanently he has better parts maintained, the time may not be fai
The Pessimist.
ner than others.
fistant when the prime of life wil fall between sixty and eighty'.
nerve
Peasants and tradespeople have teen their incomes keep pace with he rising cost of living, but these others have not They have had
e cured.
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"Now that woman has rights and privileges hitherto denied her, she has responsibilities and uses freely, whether or not she is conscious of the fact. That is the truth of real life of to-day.
Undergraduates at Cambridge Insulin. a preparation from the shown on the screen-held up for University have been warned encrens of sheep and oxen, was inspection, as it were, and isolat- against participating in "rags" in he name of the modern magic. ed from the many surrounding London after 'Varsity matches by o tighten their belts and maker. Mingt was among the first to circumstances that blind us to the Vice-Chancellor of the Univer- ncreasing sacrifices in order to
He refers to reports of facts in everyday happenings-sity. ecure for their children the
He returned to his studies of the truth may seem exaggeration. disturbances which occurred in Another disconcerting kind of
Mental Factors.
standard of education which their he cause and cure of anæmis partner, whom we all know and is
Auto-intoxication and
raditions and self-respect de rhen the death sentence was re-wives or sweethearts merely, but halls on the evening of the Oxford
"In short, women are no longer some London theatres and music often quite a good player, is the strain are the chief evils which mid kind that sits down at the begin-Be-aged persons have to evade in
nand. By comparison with the moved. Every available hour of often partners, who want respon- and Cambridge Rugby football DODWELL & CO. LTD. re-war period the incomes of is new lease of life was devoted sibility and a vital part in the match. The warning continues: ning with the announcement that these latter days, and this cheery hese people have increased on an he has lost 20 rubbers running and counsellor gives his reader practicaverage by three or four fold, but
"The Vice-Chancellor desires to affairs of life. and are going to Animal liver had been used by have them. The sex question in- warn most urgently all under- now expects to lose his 21st. As hints for the campaign of evasion the student in Paris who tried to
Dr. Whipple in the treatment of a matter of mathematical fact, the There is no short cut to health in
ng it graduate members of the Univer- get along on four times thé uver- nddo atalari an
loga, in which simple anemia evitably enters business player middle-age; it is not to be obtainer koning 20 rubbers running are over and retained by means of drugs
ge pre-war allowance would be as artificially induced by bleed-ever did before, because busi-sity against any participation in a very uncomfortable position.g. Dr. Whipple noted markedness is now the property of two scenes of disorder, particularly It is profoundly though "dimo-introduced six a mittion in one,
Before the great upheaval the mprovement in his dog patients sexes instead of ono,” Improbable that any average player years ago and often prescribed with
student in Paris who had an after treatment by a diet of cook- will ever lose 20 rubbers running,acifying results--is an excellen! lowance of 200ƒ (£8 at pre-ward animal liver.
WRONG BABIES. even if he plays bridge hard for intestinal disinfectent
or bacteri the rest of his life.
When, at the beginning of a rubis, which is free from all deleteri her, our partner acquaints us with art absorbed by the blood. Its This Bem of information, we shall,
chersient therefore, not fail to realise that theybank, and it was disenvered.
methylome his empacity for memory and ob- servation is not at its best, or in Captain Ainslie Walker, who did a vast deal of admirable work der the alternative that he must
being the war-years as head of one of playing very badly-far below the the Mobile Laboratories. form of an average. phiyer. A
But the middle-aged person's first trong show of self-confidence often duty to himself is to avoid the dead- helps to restore the morale of this y comentenation of "tired kind of partner, dilapidated by ad-fired digestion." The plan
campaign must include "exercise,
versity.
4
everyone.
average
bad. The best of players
ous acthm og hunian tissue id is
m:m,
Of
1
MOTHER WHO EXCHANGED AFTER A MISTAKE.
Considerable comment has been
two
ehango) a month was quite Dr. Minot worked patiently omfortably circumstanced. but rom this stage. He saw the pos he student of to-day has to ac-ibilities of relieving mankind of aplish miracles of economy ta load of suffering, if only and self-denial to make ends meel
human beings would answer to in 1,000 a month (equal to about he treatment. He experimented caused in Manchester by a remark the same figure in sterling). dogs, and, after tedious able mistake resulting in Jome spartans manage to live on
ouths. succeeded in curing in babies being handed over to their s little as 800f, but they are them simple, secondary, and per-wrong mothers. care who can accomplish this at a icious anemia. ime when meals cost 7 or 8 in. tead of 1f 25c and when.rucms which in 1014 were let at 50f a month now cost at least 250f.
Medlock.
such as involves injury of the property or interference with the enjoyment of other persons, whe- ther after inter-University con- tests or at other times.
"Any member of the Univer-| sity who takes part in such dis- turbances not only disgraces him- self, but stains the fame of the University and brings its good name into discredit with the out- side world."
The Vice-Chancellor adds that a similar notice has been issued
y the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford.
WATER SUPPLY.
Tyłam
1920
1027
16 GB 12' 2"D
26' 4" 23' 0"
Level
2' 3"B
23' 1"B 34' 0"B
19 0"B 18' 3"B 21' 5"B 22' 2"B ¡Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow" A denotes "Above Overflow.”]
Storage in millions and" þeimals of gallone.
1927
the Tytam
259.44 .50
1028 289.82
1.47
195.00 183.45
722,00
01542
10.61 11.20
21.75 20.40
Total 1,403,71 1,227.84 Consumption' of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de cimals of gallons during the month o' January.
1924 1927 220.94 239.69
Six months ago a woman who had Human beings became his next given the name of Nellie Watson, tients. The diet of cooked ox-or Davies, was admitted to the liver, the simplest cure imagin-Crumpaal Poor Law Hospital, ac- hle, was tried. Pernicious companied by two children. The "Leading Double Lives."
anemia answered to treatment elder was sent to a home at Styal Nearly all players play worse being cut-of-doors, sunlight, a good But there are many university imple and secondary anemia was months, went to Booth
lthough, paradoxically enough, and the younger, who was eighteen after a run or iad luck thun after mised diet, plenty of fluid to drink students in Paris and elsewhere in still obstinate. Dr. Minot had treatment.
Hall for
Level and Storage of water in run of good luck. Especially and peace of mind.”
When the time came Reservolts on February 1, 1928:- The last France who have not the least there who hid by natural flair named antidote to ill health is per hope of ever receiving an allowaid his debt.
for the woman to be discharged two. rather than by, fixed rules are apthaps the hardest of all to procurence of 1,000f, or even 800f, a
children were brought to her. When | CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER to be thrown out of gear by con- Avoidance of hard work need not month, but who, determined to
WORKS LEVEL. "Tell me, doar," suid the London she was handed the younger one she stant ill-inck; and players who are be sought; our consultant points were education at any est, are actress, "how did the show go on declared that it was not hers but norally good have periods in out how often retirement from busi spending themselves in a two-fold the roud?"
she was told it was, and it was which they are definitely bad. Runs ness is followed by premature de-fort. The midnight oil they "My dear, an awful frost! Why suggested that as it had been ill it Tytam Byowash... of ill-luck are bound to occur to eat and death. There can be no burn is not all burned over their in one town a boy in the gallery had changed very much in ap- Tytam Intermediate
Tytam Tak It is true that no one doubt that the mental factors are books, They are, by force, of wanted his money back because hurance.
The woman, atill unconvinced, Wong Nel Chung need contemplate fosing 20 rubbers fast as important as the physical economie circumstancom, loathing was afraid to stay up there alone."
Pokfulum ruining. But everyone may be ones, perhaps more so.
left the institution with the two Make up double lives. sure that from time to time he will your mind to be young-to keep the
children. She had not long left Until quite recently there was have to go through a series of rub-cental elasticity of youth, and not a conductor on one of the motor vaiters when they are not busy when it was discovered that a bers at the end of which he will be to contract the ways of talking, ele. omnibuses who, when he was not with their books. There is, for mistake had been made, and that) for more than 20 rubbers to the which old men affect, quite un-earning his living in this way of nstance, not more than 300 yards the younger child which had been
handed over was in reality will necessarily--and Dr. Hopewell-taking the necessary minimum of rem, the Sorbonne a little res-
Tytam Byewash eften have runs against him much Ash's good advice will have far more rest, was preparing for qualifica aurant which, with the exception daughter of Mrs. Ray Davies, of Tytam Intermediate
Street, Chorlton-on- Tytam Tuk ...... worce than that. Indeed, as was effect, when acted upon. And-ation as a dental surgeon, His of the proprietor and the cook, is Cranworth
Wong Net Chung.. long ago shown by Dr. Pole, there worry is bad, but worrying about employers helped him to the ex- staffed entirely by medical and ia no sort of reason theoretically our health is worst of all.
Fortunately, the first woman, stil! Pókfulum tent of arranging his hours of aw students. The service is ex- why the best player in any club
duty so as to fit in with his cellent, and the casual client dissatisfied, had not left the town, should not be a permanent loser.
DR. CASTELLANI, schedule of studies, and it may be may find some gratification in the and the police were able to trace noted that his record of service thought that the tip he gives the her quickly, with the result that the The King has conferred the rank with the transport company was waiter may go towards the pur-babies were exchanged.
or of, an Mrs. Davies insisted upon taking of Honorary Knight Commander of so good, that he was marked for chase of microscope. the Order of St. Michael and St. early promotion. Books account essential but expensive book. hers home. George upon Dr. Castellani, Direc- for a considerable proportion of The women are as brave as the It is understood the Guardians, is that they usually seem to loss, tor of Tropical Medicine at the Ross the average student's expendi- nen in their struggle to win who are responsible for control of The answers are various. Prob- Institute and Hospital for Tropical ture, for they are just as neces-hrough to graduation. Some of the institutions, are Investigating. ably the most ordinary single Dincases, Putney Heath, S.W. Dr.try as bed or meals. More than them earn a little money by act- one student has solved the. dif-ng as nursemaids to young child- cause, especially among ladies, is Castellani is at present lecturing in ficulty of finding funds for these for two or three hours a day, undercalling. Nor are these mu- America.
by entering the service of a book while one, who intends to become Dr. Castellani, who was born in seller, so transferring the item barrister, is a dancer in a Florence in 1875, has lived in Eng-books from the debit to the credit music hall when she not a law land for many years. He became side of his budget. One law stud-student. a member of the Royal College of ent not only sells on commission It is not easy to obtain details standard time of the 120th meridianing the districts west of Eastern Physicians, London, in 1916, and a to his more fortunately-situated individual cases, for the stud-east of Greenwich, is as follows: Fellow (F.R.C.P.) in 1922. He was colleagues, but undertakes rounds ante who are compelled to lead Date.
He gets his books fouble lives do not talk about March. Royal Society Commission for in-gratis and also enjoys the pri- 'heir efforts, and their friends 4 vestigating sleeping sickness, and vilege of a free meal at midday in make a pretence of ignorance. has filled many other important addition to a salary which, though The attitude of those who are positions.
very small. helps to eke out the combining their studies with la He is chiefly known for his part monthly allowance.
bour of any kind which will pro- in elucidating the causes of sleep- Hit is an easy occupation by vide essential funds was well ex- ing sickness, yaws, and other tropi-comparison with some of the pressed by a student who devotes cal maladies.
tasks which poor students under a certain amount of his time and The honorary rank is conferred take in their fight for education energy to the unloading of barges. on foreign subjects, the ordinary There are several men who devote When asked how long he worked rank of the order being restricted their days to study and their each night, he replied: "Until it to British subjects.
nights to taxi-cab driving; dozens is so light that I might be recog- of men who in due time will be nised." doctors, lawyers, or engineers are
It is merely highly improbable.
Wrong Calling.
I have often been asked, and
sometimes by quite good card-
players, if I can tell them why it
tually exclusive. Some players undereal and overcull, both at the wrong times. But after ruling out
these main factors of loss, there remains a balance of good players who never seem to do themselves proper justice.
In many of these cases they are mistaken in thinking that they lose; and a system of account-keeping would serve to console them. But after all these have been accounted for there are some loft, with re- gard to whom further explanation is necessary and yet is not easy to find. It can then generally be ac counted for by same obscure vice of bidding, of which I may give one example.
on
a member of the Foreign Office and of delivery.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong during March, according to the
Sunrise. Sunsot.
u.m. p.m.
6.42 6.28 6.41 6.28
Consumption. Estimated population 408,480 418,800
per day..
17.9
18.4 Consumptien per head
Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts West of Eastern Street from January 1st to 30th inclusive.
Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts West of Garden Road from January 6th to 80th Inclusive.
Fully Supply in all Districts on January 31st.
Full Supply in all Rider Main Din tricts from 1st to 2nd January except-
Street an intermittent supply was given 1st to 2nd January, 1928.
Intermittent supply in all Rider Main Districts from 3rd to lat January excepting days 21st to 23rd # full supply was operated on account! of Chinois. New Year.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS. LEVEL
1927 1928
Kowloon Rezervoir. 14' 8"B 78"B Shek Lai Pui Reser
55
6.40 6.29
7
6.89 -6.29
8
6.39. 6.80
១
0.88
6.30
.10.
6.37
6.31
11
6:36
6.31
12
6.35
6.32.volr
13
6.84
6.82
14
6.34 6.82
15
6.33 6.33
That students should have to.
16
6.82
6.93 0.01 6.98
6.80
19
'3" 1'10"B Reception Reservale Level 22"B Atorage in millions and decimals of xalious.
1027 1923 Kowloon Reservoir 217.24 281.19 Shek Lai Puf Reservoir 96.71 93.36 27.48 Reception Reservoir 88.15 0.33 6.29 8.34
Total...
846.13 402.00 Consumption of water in Kowloor In millona and decimals of radons dur ing the month of January, 6.85
2028 6.26 *686
Consumption
75.82 88.58 Estimated population 156,500 100,000 Consumption per head
15.417.4
76.27 6.34
21
6.27 6.85
22
6.26
The most dificult phase of bid- ding is in the final stages, when perhaps one side has bid Ave hearts bidding, and they almost invariably employed at night by big garages resort to such expedients in 17 and the other five spades. The do the wrong thing. Yet if this in cleaning motor-cars, and there order to reach their goal is din- 18. qucation then arises as to whether situation arises only once a day the are not a few students who dur-tressing to themselves and to all to go one more heart or double the dice are loaded against them to that ing the hours between midnight who have to deal with them but 20, spades, The premium a extent. A single vice of this sort and dawn are busy with mop and the university authorities find right choice is extremely high.is enough to convert almost any broom on the tramcars and omni cause for pride in the circum- Involving penalties or else doubled player into loser, for few players huses. One at least is a lamp stance. The cause of education in 23.
ennobled and advanced by the lighter. acore, bonus and game to one side are good enough to withstand a
spectacle of young men and or the other. A turnover of several permanent daily handicap of 300 Students As Waiters.
women who will fight and suffer hundred points is involved in the pointe against them. A good play-Many students have part-time for it. The University of Paris decisions for may fall short in one particular, employment as clerks or tutors, could receive no higher tribute! Now, there are some players and instead of being blessed for but not all of those in need can and Its professors would ask no whose constitutions are not adapted his many virtues ho in damned for find auch congenial employment. better material. "Daily Tele
pher of them, ast, na
સામે
24
6,24
6.36
6.23:
6.86
6.22
6.87
6.216.87
6.20 -6.87. :.6.19 6.87
16.18
688
by per day
1827
Fall Supply in all districts during
January 1927 and 1923
The Government Analyst's reporte show that the quality of the water t satisfactory, ARENA"
Botal rainfall to January: 81,-1927
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