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Short Gun For Big Shot
Mr. Robert Bingham, the Ameri
can Ambassador to London who last
year was cheated of his grouse- shooting by illness, is already pre- paring for the Twelfth.
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1934.
HARD WORK SPELLS
LONG LIFE
GOOD HEALTH MEANS MAXIMUM FUNCTION
THE BORED SHOULD BE DESPISED
(By Sir Herbert Barker.)
He is looking for a new pair of short-bartalled guns 25 Inches in JEOPLE of prominence, have been look back to see too late that length and is having some difficulty] [ ́ discussing the conditions making failure followed on inability to mas- in persuading his gunsmiths to for a happy old age. The subject ter' the extraordinarily make them.
is, of course, one of vital interest technique of living.
Mr. Bingham, however, sticks to to us all, for great length of days, Jhis theory. He believes that for accompanied by the maximum of a light man a short-barrelled gun happiness and good health-the two has great advantages. He has are inseparable is a boon desired already proved to his own satisfac-by the majority. tion that the propulsive force of a cartridge reaches its maximum at 19 inches.
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No Second Chance
difficult
But life never gives us a second chance. It is for that reason that we should strive to learn rapidly so
We grumble at life, but few of that we can apply our new know- ledge while there remain, years of |us can have enough of it. To vigour and activity ahead of us.
There are several ways of doing
that.
the
prolong life has ever been man's Incidentally, Mr. Bingham
dream, calls a cartridge cartridge-at:
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Que is to ponder the causes of American sportsman a cartridge is alchemists, held out a spurious pre-
failure: another to examine for mise for our forebears of the Mid- always a "shell.”
Twenty-five-inch barrels are not dle Ages. We smile when we read their secret the lives of those who have attained both to success and'. common in England, but that fine af these fearsome concoctions; yet
length of days. shot. Mr. Ernest Guinness, goes in we are little better in this age of
Beek to Psychologists tells us that after a for them. He has done good exe. science, since most of us
minds develop no cution with a pair of twenty-bores prolong life by means completely at certain age our
further, that we reach the limits of with barrels of only 22 inches.
Orthodoxy tells us that we are our intellectual growth. They add, however, that beyond that point we entitled to three score years and
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Although there are
Nome
variance with science.
ten. Modera Instances suggest that improve in our technique of life by good we may hope for a much longer applying the fruits of experience. shots among the London Ambassa-span-but only if we live according It is from experience, then, that
dors
mats.
ger, David Sassoon & Co. Ltd.. All the nations have been strug with high birds. At one stand he capacities and therefore POBSCES Take, for example, the man who
(the Japanese Ambassador to those unwritten laws of nature we must learn. A repeated error is ruus a diplomatic syndicate in Sus to understand which is to take the a confession of stupidity or at least sex) Mr. Bingham should have no first step towards length of days.
of thoughtlessness. But the iron law applies, and for every repeated difficulty in establishing himself as
Reason might suggest that to live error we must once more suffer. the best shot among the senior diplo long it is necessary to conserve the
There is only one criterion for more than a stroke of the pen
body's energies. Scientific facts every action and every mental pro- He has already had some pheasant reveal the somewhat surprising in-cas there is something seriously shooting in England and showed
by which we can gauge its DOVEY-Arthur Grahan. Mana-rong with orthodox economics more than average skill in dealing formation that we call on only one-value: Does it increase our interest
ninth of OUT body's functional in an enjoyment of life? Shanghai, suddenly on 9th inst. gling in various ways, and with killed 24 with 26 shots.
huge reserves.
as "uninteresting" work. How, he internal prices to diminished re-not merely a command visit to the
Generally speaking, then. we may argue, ean he be expected to sources, and many Governments White House. It also gave him the never know our full physical capa- enjoy it? As I see ít, for him have fallen in the process. Italy chance for some quaii shooting in bilities, or, in the terms of the there are only two remedier: to is now making an experiment in Carolina. After grouse this is his biologists, our "potential." And cast about for other work that will short cuts to greater prosperity favourite sport.
this is true of our minds: we work engage his faculties the better, or them only to something like a ninth, to examine his approach to his pre- that lacks nothing in courage.
also, of their capacities.
sent occupation. The mental at-
en route to Bombay. (by cable)
The China Mail
Hong Kong. Friday, May 11, 1934.
Mussolini's Way To Economy.
France's
Cabinet bus
little real success,
to adjust
If it succeeds, ideas the world
His recent trip to America was
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Enormous reserves, therefore, titude towards what we do goes a though Italy, able to live to NO The "Black Museum" at the head-are always kept uncalled upon; But long way, towards determining its...... large an extent upon its internal quarters of the Bucharest police con-this does not mean that we possess effect upon us. resources, presents no close tains many proofs of the skill of a grand, wide margin with which The world is full of square pegs parallel to many countries that Rumanian detectives at intercepting we
meeting trouble less these unpleasantly
notare
wavered in determination. The heroically.
cuts in pay and in pensions have! been carried through, and! nominally the Budget is on
the
Lord Tyrrell.
ports.
can play. All things being in round holes.
frequent im-equal, to attain to a ripe old age it But, whatever one may do, the
tis
"Brain Fag" A Myth
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essential that the organiser fact is that much of the world's A photograph of the deadliest of should function to capacity. Those work must be performed for no these bambs used to hang in the five longest who live most intensgly, better purpose than to procure the waiting-room of the Secret Police or, to Use again the biological means of life. In such | way to balance. There have! Lord Tyrrell has concluded his branch. It had a clockwork device, term, who function to the limit of think life may still be enriched by
been threats of trouble from the term as British Ambassador in allowing for an unusually lengthy their potential.
development of the unused abilities (Civil Services, but these have Paris, thus crowning a career delay in detenstion.
in the leisure hours. We should been met by suspension of some alike brilliant and rich in uchieve- It was designed for a great State
not pity the bored we should despise of the ringleaders and by a de-ment. Great Britain has sent no gathering a few days later. It would| Good health
hold means maximum them. To have so wenk n mand from the National Federa- figure more popular with her have exploded beneath a platform function, and that both on the phy-upon life in a world such as ours {tion of Taxpayers that the Gov-neighbours to the French capital.{containing a larger number of Royalsical and the mental side. And that the hours, hang heavily is to ernment shall deal drustically There have been occasions dur-and other dignitaries than had been that is but another way of saying that lead to premature old age. The invite the first processen of decay with all who continue to protest.ing the last five years upon assembled in Bucharest for M. Doumergue has faced the which the two countries have years. financial difficulty in a manner differed in their outlook upon that deserves success, for all policy. If these have involved other French Governments have no strain to the friendliest rela-i quailed before the task of cutting|tions much of the success in cir-
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I don't believe in bringing the that it is impossible to overwork not approve the great poet's late the brain, so great are its reserves. autumn love affair. I cannot agree organisation of the management With no trace of that stiffness of
Direct evidence of such facts as with them. Goethe loved and work- of these and of the road-trans-personal manner sometimes at.
QUITE port systems, but these changes (tributed to British diplomats.
the foregoing is obtainable to-day, ed until the end because he was the appear as minor matters in com Lord Tyrrell had the capacity in nerves of iron. Judging by the technique of laboratory methods of
Dentists, says a writer, need thanks to the perfection of the great lover of life. parison with what has already conversation to smooth
(Continued on Page 11), away bills they send out they've got 'em research. We may take it, then, as been done.
difficulties and to win his way by What the French Government intellectual appreciation of an Case for the R.S.P.C.A.
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shortening our lives, by the vigorous A dance band played recently in pursuit of physical and culty and amid protest Signor unable to make concession.
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us towards health and life.
Detained by the police on a charge The more fully the organism func-of suspected arson, in connection wiht a fire which broke out in a Itions the healthier it is;
atorehouse at Tsun Wan yesterday, It should be our object, therefore, a Chinese woman, Wong Tal Yin, to get out of ourselves the "poten-was sent to the Government Civil tial" that is the greatest contribu- Hospital in an apparently Insane tion of which we are capable in the condition. İparticular environmental setting in
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Talpo Road, and its contents were Now the reader will probably be completely destroyed by fire, The criticising this proposition of mine estimated damage is given at $540. already. He will very likely pro-
creused the tax on bachelors his work in the field of pure by one-half. A measure so diplomacy is the more notable as drastic may be made a little he entered upon the most diffi- more palatable by the fact that cult of embassies after a career the salaries of members of the spent almost entirely within the Government are to suffer the Foreign Office. As private sec greatest reduction of all. The retary to the late Viscount Grey decree is officially justified by from 1907 to 1915, in the dan- the statement that food prices gerous years before the war he have fallen by over 25 per cent had much to do with the shaping sinice, 1927. According to rum- of British foreign policy. His our the attack. upon official deep sympathies with French cul- salaries. is to be followed by re-iture and French thought did not duction of wages. througout the prevent him striving, earnestly: country in an effort to equalise after friendliness with Germany, for assaulting a cleryman. Arship. To that I heartily agree. the burden of sacrifice. All Italy and faffure in that direction cer-parently he is no respecter of par
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waters don't
Dinilited
cheap,
EXPLAINED
run
A man has been, seat, to prison
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test that work may be so distasteful KNITTING FACTORY
as to make Its performance a hard-|
The problem of getting the best
OUTBREAK.
Brigade Arrive,
is to be made to accept a lower tainly did not lie in the British sons,
out of life of living our fullest, be-Premises Deserted When scale of living in the effort to Foreign Office. At later dates
comes that of getting for the three grapple with the Increasing Lord Tyrrell was intimately as financial difficulties of the Gov-sociated with the successful mis-
“Mrs. II—— gives the secret of components of our make-up the best ernment. x
sion of Lord Reading to the cooking potatoes in a nutshell," possible conditions. We have to see
Foul play is suspected in con-- Before such dramatic methods United States and with the says a critle of a recent book. An- that our bodies have fair deal: nection with a fire which broke out
that our minds have the opportunity yesterday on the premises of that world must stand 'in amaze framing of the Locarno: agree- other way la to use a saucepan.
to develop; that our emotions have knitting factory at 96-98 Fook ment. It will watch with a ment, while he had great influ
adequate freedom for expression. curious interest the outcome of ence in promoting the Anglo can be said that few men have
on Wing Street, Shumshuipp an experiment that Signor Mus Italian rapprochement of the played so great a part in Euro These three factors, in right liv The building contained ving solini alone is in a position to last few years, incessant work has pean affairs in the last quarter ing constitute the art of life, the quarters, but on the arrival of the make. If internal prices can be taken its toll of his health Ad of a century, hone with less most dificult of kill arts. It's the Fire Brigade the promises were Jadjusted in this way by little the moment of his retirement Itlostentation or self-seeking.
‚of every unhappy life to found to be deserted: