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Sowers Of Tates
HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
THE JAPANESE WILL LIKE THEM
The mission which the Fédération of British Industries have sent to Manchukuo should get on well with the Japanese.
Its members include two ex-civil
servants, both of whom have senti- mental connections with Japan.
LIVING TOO FAST FOR
OUR NERVES
SECURING THE MOST
FROM HOLIDAYS
PERNICIOUS FOOD
HABITS
(By a Harley Street Doctor.)
Mr. Jullan Piggott, who repre- TEURASTHENIA, a result of This muscle is the most capable
sents the Iron and Steel Federation. N present-day life, with its of all of being trained and streng-
was born in Japan.
His middle business, social, and political worthened; when trained, if healthy, it name is Ito. His father Was ries, is said to be responsible for will stand almost anything. But famous Japanese scholar.
[sending 600 people a year into Bel-flabby and untrained it naturally He is a brother of Brigadier gian public and private mental asy- becomes a prey to sudden strain. Piggott, who recently represented lums. Lord Hailsham at the Hindenburg These establishmente now house Importance Of Diet
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memorial service. The Brigadier isj
over 24,000 patients, the highest In the building up of your ner- the War Office expert on Japan. number ever recorded and an in-vous system and tissues the ques- Mr. Guy Lecock, who during his crease of more than 6,000. as.com-tion of an adequate diet la of vital |Foreign Office carear was private pared with the period immediately importance. Many thin sufferera
preceding the war.
secretary to four successive minis- ters, is a nephew of Sidney Locock,
Embassy in Japan in 1863. ·
from "nerves" will enormously im- Some alarm is justified. One prove if they can put on weight. a member of the first British cannot get away from the fact that For this a correctly balanced the "hurry, worry, flurry" of the died Is essential. It is not physio. present day must have a deleter-logical righteousness to stow away ious effect on the nervous system as much ordinary food as one can
SPORTSMEN ALL
The two remaining members of Compared with 25 years ago, the when on holiday; the digestive sy- the mission have no special know-speed of everything has been enor-stem, with all its delicate nerve mously quickened, both in work mechanism, requires a rest too; ledge of Japan.
At the same time Lord Barnby, and in sport. Are our bodies and for our "insides" are automatically
minds attuned to the increasing de- driven by the nervous system.
aa Wool Controller during the war
East.
and as the head of a famous wool mands made upon them by the There no sense in getting this firm, has large interests in the Far speed and general wear and tear of mechanism further carbonised-for,
modern life?
exactly like a motor-car, carbonisa- Sir Charles Seligman is
They are not; for the simple rea- tion it is. We take care not to senior director of the banking firm son that this attuning must be a over-oil our cars, but we do not which bears his name.
process of time, slow and gradual, bother much about over-stoking the
the
All four men are keen sportsmen. whereas we have rapidly asked a human engine.
Lord Barnby is Master of the lamall 4-cylinder engine to take on "Must keep up my strength, you Blankney and a good polo player, the work of a big 6. Evolution is know!" That pernicious slogan has ed by a communication recently He is a cautious thinker but a swift a slow process by nature. We have killed tens of thousands. Eat these asked it to become a 'speed maniac. things that go to building up the published in England by a recent mover. visitor to what are called: the He has been seen driving to Hur-
Consider the rushing moter-car, nervous system and its billions of "communist" Provinces describingham in a car with closed blinds. the flashing aeroplane, the fierce infinitely delicate cells. Give the. ing a reformed and economical It means that rather than miss his speed at which many business cooking stove-the curse of mo- administration, with a large polo he is changing into polo kit on and profession is carried on, with dern civilisation-a' miss as far as
Your Daily Smile!
all the attendant concentration
-
Physiological Facts
number of Government schemes the way.
possible, of betteriment (such as maternity Sir Charles Seligman was and competition the struggle to
A
Fish and shell-flah should be allowances) which seem to show scratch golfer. At 64 he still plays live and earn and succeed. All is largely indulged in. Best of all is It may be natural. but it is
a genuine effort to improve the down to a handicap of five.
unrest. Add to this late nights fresh dairy produce-milk, butter, none the less deplorable, that we lot of the man who lives on and Mr. Jady Piggott is the old and the present-day desire for eggs, cream, cheese, and all the inevitably allow the things that by the land. The only news of Cheltenham and Surrey cricketer. more or less exciting leasures and things prepared thereform. Fruit have an obvious and personal those Provinces which is doled Mr. Locock is an erratic golfer the candle is being sadly burned at should not be regarded as A bearing on our own affairs to about to us is. as a rule, of some who can be relied on to hole a 12 both ends..
Juxury; it is an essential food and sorb our attention, while more military expedition, which does yard putt if the stakes are high
an important nutrient. remote events get from us only not appear to produce any very enough. passing glance and are then for- definite result; but one is bound
What is the counterblast to the
Sun acte as a valuablo general gotten. All the more important to conclude that men who are is it that we should from time to willing to defend their own ad-
frayed-out and jaded nerves? Atthole to the whole body and this time of year by learning same-specially to the nervous system. time remind ourselves of the fact ministration with enthusiasm and
thing of the science and art of The modern bathing dreas--and Old Lady (looking at submarine in spending a holiday. Many people
the less of it the better-is an ex- that in Hong Kong we are con- vigour must be well satisfied with dock): "And doesn't that gun on deck on holiday make it a time of toll and cellent health-giving innovation. cerned with anything that holds it. If that be so, why not leave get wet when you submerge?" back the general, prosperity of those Provinces to work out their Sailor: "Oh, no, ma'am!
When we strenuous endeavour instead of re-Exposure to sun and air is one of the mercantile world.
own salvation in their own way? submerge one the sailors holda an garding it in the nature of a rest the surest ways of building up re- aistance to infections and diseases. Professor Forster's lecture of Nothing is more sure in the whole
Jeure. Often they come back more
Rest, relaxation of mind and the Mass Education movement in art of Government than that if
tried than they went away. China, particularly in his refer the people who suffer by any bad
Glance at one
body, graditated exercise, correct or two simple nutrition, and long hours of sleep, ences to the primitive agricul- system are left alone they will
physiological facts. The average tural methods to which the make the necessary amendments. farmer is condemned by lack of A little patience costs much less capital, is only the latest remin- than a military expedition; and
Only One of the Kind der of what could be achieved. a Provincial Government that is
are soft; his waistline possibly best for them. She: "The man I marry must be amore circular than it should be. Mr. Hsiung's poster hits off the instituting reforms will be too
brave as a lion, but not forward; hand. situation very happily in depict busy making both ends meet to some as Apollo, but not conceited; wise He is going to be throughly lazy. ing two Chinese each pulling a interfere with. its neighbours. [as Solomon, but meek as a lamb; a man But instead of that be plunges wheelbarrow in opposite direc The Nanking Government it who is kind to every woman, but only into two rounds of golf a day and CHOSE DEATH WHEN tions. The rise in silver has self has shown 'sympathy with loves me." quite naturally caused an excess many reform movements that He (enthusiastically): "How lucky of imports over exports because could be enormously quickened we met!"
it has increased China's buying up with a stronger financial back. power.
umbrella over it."
Forgiving
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Downstairs: "Didn't you hear me
Upstairs; "Oh., that's all right.
pounding on the ceiling?"
Welman goes away muscularly unfit sunshine, and open air and you will return with your depleted were making a lot of noise ourselves." and untrained after nearly a year nerve cells replete with all that is in a chair at a deck. His muscles
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The Difference
ikat
The modern economisting; and it is not credible that "Where did you learn is not afraid of what is called an none of the able and educated piece?" "unfavourable" balance of trade, men connected with it fail to see which merely means that a how immensely their country has been tuned." country is able to buy more. would benefit by a
season of
"It's not a new plece."
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A Good Find
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probably a good swim. Result- sky fatigue at the end of the day.
This fatigue goes on daily, and no reservó is laid in. At the end new of the holiday he is no more_rested than at the beginning. Moral: The plane Start your exercise gently and
HE LOST
Man's Suicide On Eve Of Marriage
Planning to get married, gradually increase it a little day by Frederick William Poulton back- day. And so you will build up ed two horses with his last 2s
that he had lost. He returned There should be certain hours of to his home in Lambourne-road,
The richest country will have sound and pacific administration! the most unfavourable balance, during which the national field. Wife (back from the shops): "Well, strength and fitness instead of He bought an evening paper, saw because accounts will be balanced could be fertilised and sown with dear, I've found just the costume I've squandering them.
been looking for." by the "invisible" receipts. But wheat. There is no other ex- Husband: "Splendid! I certainly complete reat in the day, giving in Barking, and put his head in a neither do we nowadays look planation but that the work of couldn't have afforded to buy it for to full relaxation of mind and gas oven. upon a rise of imports as in it-the sowers of wheat is neutralise you."
self anything to boast about by the sowers of tares; and some
body. That is why sleep restores Mrs Rose Chaplin, a widow, us all goes limp and at rest. This gave evidence at the inquest at
The question is really-what are of them are easily recognisable. Facts You Did Not Know gives the myriads of nerve cells ilford. She said that the form the imports? If they are pumps Why is it that when Marshal
their chance of building them for the application for publica- and tractors and building mater- Chiang Kai Shek marches his
A new converter that changes any selves up.
tion of banns for her marriage ials.-what are called capital forces into any area where his standard alternating current radio
to Poulton was signed, gooda, the wealth-of-the-people authority-is-set-at-naught he is broadcast receiver into a short waya Care Of The Heart
When he saw in the paper the is increased and will show itself countered with guns and muni- superheterodyne lacks the usual plug in The heart is simply a bag of results of the races to me and by and by either in a higher tions as up to date as his own? coils and is simpler to operate.
muscle and must be gradually said 'One horse hasn't run and standard of living or in increased It would be very odd if it were. exports which can buy more otherwise, for they are made in goods.
the same workshops. Who then is the man who 18 M. Barthou, a keen barrister German to draw out dents in farm-flabby after a year of a chair and a Recording a verdict of Suicide pulling the wheelbarrow the who happens to be the French ture even with the surrounding wood. deak. Then it is suddenly asked to while of Unsound. Mind, the coro wrong way? The most obvious Foreign Minister, backed up by
do something strenuous-such as ner said that Foulton obviously person is the man who disturbs Mr. Eden, the English represen device has been invented that drops eus an active swim after good meal. had no money to get married on the peace and prevents the tative, two days ago entered & ball after another on a tee, the driven This is why so many sudden No doubt he had represented to
ward of his toll. Whether he in which the embargo on arms turns them to the machine. farmer from reaping the proper strong protest against the way balls striking a canvas sheet that re-catastrophes take place in men who the woman that he had money are middle-aged and of over and felt he could not keep his be a mere bandit or an organised against, Paraguay and Bolivia, had
weight. I have little doubt that promise. army under an ambitious tuchun been neutralised by the unseru- A French inventor's le buoy for
He had not even the Is. 6d. to makes no difference. Ner are pulous way in which other States passenger ships can be shot from many bathing fatalities in Buch we in Hong Kong, with the limit had accepted and forwarded to rack by an electrically discharged cart. People are due to heart failure an enable him to publish the banns. ed information supplied to us these States who are still fight-ridge, a capsule that it contains igait untrained vital muscular structure through the only available chan-ing each for possible oil-wells then on contact with water to produce having some acute exertion-and-
An electrically heated iron, used trained to take on without being the other has lost. My last 2s. over parchment that in moistened to strained the extra efferta often ask-has gone. He then returned produce steam, has been invented by a ed of it on holiday. It, too, gets home."
nels of information, in a position armaments which they could not
to estimate the rights and wrongs import direct. The League will
To ansed golfers' driving practice *)
fame.
denly thrust upon it.
The heart, like all the rest of the muscles, should be quietly and
HANGCHOW'S FAMOUS LAKE !
TO BE DREDGED
of military operations in the inbe driven sooner or later by public terior. It is very difficult to keep opinion to create machinery to to enlist Japan's own help in gradually trained with slowly in The City Government of Han- track of the various reports deal with this dishonest trick dealing with her own manufac- creasing exercise. The whole in chow is reported by the Chines clearly enough to decide whether It was the arms traffic that the tuurera. The beat thing that for- tegrity of the heart they are announcing something Japanese Official Spokesman was eign Powers could do for the Far much on the cond new or contradicting something niming at in his recent awkward East would be to classify munias was once thought, we had been told the week before. cnouncement; the proper policy tlons of war with heroinas dan state of the muscle o
composed But we have been much impress would have been to concur, and gerous goods.
enda not so press to have negotiated, a loan valves, of— $200,000 - from the native the bankers for the dredging of the is West Lake which this year dried up during the prolonged drought.