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FINGERPRINT ANNIVERSARY-
• The __fingerprint department of Scotland Yard has celebrated its fortieth anniversary.
BRITAIN IS EATING MUCH LESS
REVOLUTION IN FOOD
HABITS REVEALED
QUALITATIVE CHANGES
(By V. H. Mottram.)
London, owing to the greater open-air life
In spite of frequent queries in the court us to its infallibility and the unconfirmed theories of crime novelste that fingerprint can be forged, the department which now:
It is a commonplace among, dieti- of the population we are probably contains the fingerprint Impressions clans that our food habits are taking more of these than our of half a million people, or five being revolutionized, and we have parents did)... million separated prints, remains to ask ourselves whether, this is for
Now, are these changes -lear
the greatest contribution ever made our goed or not. As Sir George meat, coffee, alcohol, and cereals: to police work?
Newman wrote some years ago in more sugar, tea, milk, vegetables, To every critic of the ayatem his annual report on the state of and fruit advantageous or not? Scotland Yard gives the same the public health, "Nutrition is the If we leave out the beverages and answer-"Of the millions of finger foundation of the public health." sugar, probably every dietician prints we have examined we have
We all know that our grand-would agree in the advantage of never found two alike."
fathers, or perhaps out great present. tendencies. grandfathers, ate the most colossal meals and finished off two or three
A MOMENTARY DOUBT.
Meat Bogey Laid
There was, however, one occasion bottles of port each at dinner- The old-fashioned view that meat a few years ago, when official con. drank themselves under the table: makes for strength received it fidence in the system was morden.
Earlier in the history of the quietus long ago. American dieti tarily shaken. A doctor attending world gluttony was so rife that it cians and remember that dietetica: the birth of twins at Wembley rewas placed in the list of the Deadly was raised to a position of import ported the discovery that their Sins by the Church. Nowadays not ance among the subjects thought fingerprints were identical.
one person in a million, in Great worthy of university studies years With some forebodings, Superin-Britain at least and probably in the age in the United States-maintain. tendent Harry Battley, head of the civilised world, could accused of that no family should buy ment bureau and inventor of the single gluttony. ? •
until it has bought a quart of milk print identification system, went to
But this change is not what con- per head per day! the hospital. He discovered cerne us at the moment. It is all Bread has been called the staff of through the microscope what the over and done with. Besides, glut-life, but that is a misnomer. The untrained eye could not see-eleven tony, or even mere over-eating, was majority of us eat it because we points on which the printa differed. confined to the rich, whereas the have been brought up to eat it or rest of our forbears may have had because it is cheap. The poor RECONSTRUCTED.
too little to eat. Whether we are spend, about 33 per cent of the actually eating less per head only money which goes to buy food on Superintendent Battley's single statistica can tell us, and the habit bread and four simply, because they print system, which is now three of collecting statistics is still very are cheap.
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The China Mail Crinolines And Trousers years old, was the cause of a young. So that we can. judge of There is, however, evidence that
In the latest
news
strange incident at a country assize the change of habits only over our a large proportion of cereal pro of the recently.
own generation.
ducts in our diet makes for poor Hong. Kang, Monday, October 1, 1934. fashions we read with a mild sur- had never had his fingerprints tively, most of us know. For exam. Mrs. Mellanly and Dr. Pattison A prisoner had declared that he That they have changed qualita-bones and teeth. For example, prise of the decision of the mo- taken when, to his astonishment, sple, we know that only recently were able almost completely to dern fair to offer. their grand Scotland Yard witness produced a have tomatoes, bananas, and grape check the decay of teath in children A Common-Sense Report fattery. They will appear be complete set.
fruit formed a part of our daily in a Sheffield sanatorium by replac On Migration
fore us in "bell-shaped lace cages wine glass in a burgled house at nectarine at the New Year would vegetables.
Starting with one print upon amenu. Not so long ago a peach or ing the cereals in their diet with stiffened at the bottom" so as to
mothers the sincerest form of
* # Starch
good. It is a question of getting
stand out in a rigid cireumfer-Watford," the detectives had follow have been an unheard of luxury, On the other hand, that the con- No immediate results are to be ence. What is this but the ed the suspect's activities all over whesena now they are within the eumption of milk, fruit, and veget expected from the report of the crinoline before which our grand- the country until, from various reach of anyone but the poorest.ables should increase relatively to Inter-Departmental Committee on fathers. worshipped? The articles, they were able to produce Butter, too, in our pre-war daya the rest of the diet is all to the Empire Migration. The view memory is chastening. Will the every finger and thumb and a chart was something of a luxury. that Britain's economic distresses their crinolines or does she
young things still be bright in of the housebreaker's wanderings." Even middle-class familles cut vitamins and mineral matter, can be alleviated by a redistribu-change her manners who changes,
down their consumption to half a specially me and iron. Probably Your Daily Smile! pound per head per person; where: dally ration of a pint of milk and, tion of the Empire's population her skirt? There is certainly
as now, owing to the plentiful supa sufficiency of green vegetables pg receives not the least encourage feminine nature for a circling
some natural affection in the "Why do the talkies sound like that?" ply of Empire butter. It can be green salads would cover all our "Oh, they're just in their infamy!" bought at about half to three needs for vitamins and mineral mat {ment. On the contrary, the cage. It recurs from century to
quarters the pre-war price, and ter commodities which meat and Committee considers it proved century. Queen Anne's hoop
practically
bread are somewhat deficient. everyone .can (and that "migration is a symptom of was the crinoline of Queen Vic Being asked after a physics lecture should) use it freely without any There remain the sugar and the. to mention three things containing toria. prosperity and not à cure for de-Coverley did bluntly pronounce following "howler." "A potato and
Though Sir Roger de starch, a bright boy committed the thought of extravagance.
beverages to consider. Some dieti- pression." It could hardly be that a lady in a hoop looked as two collars."
Influence Of Motor-Car
cians look upon the great increase otherwise. A country welcomes she stood in a drum, we are
of sugar consumption with dis The motor-car, too, has had its favour. Others point to the fact settlers when it is short of la-.
more delicate. We will admire if
influence on our food habits. The that sugar is a very convenient and we can.. bour, not when it has an unem-
middle-classes no longer have their cheap way of supplying the body Yet they will not all be encaged. ployment problem on its hands. East is going West and whatever
Sunday dinner at home of roast with energy, beef, Yorkshire pudding, vegetables, Migration, then, must await bet the varied splendours of the Irish DoctorWell, my man, what's and an apple-ple and spend their
What Is Being Drunk ter times; but when those times Orient it never had room for a the matter with you?"
After all, the foods which a man come the Governments of the Em-crinoline Trousers were always Irish Doctor (handing him a few country and have an alfresco lunch, supply at the most only about one- Sunday afternoon in a blessed takes are body building material," PatPain in the back, sir." pire can properly be prepared ins preference on ladies of beauty pills) Take one of these s quarter bought, perhaps, ready, cooked, or third of his energy intake and out- somnolence, but speed off into the for vitamins and mineral matter advance with plans which will and renown, but this too is of an hour before you feel the pain enable the migrant to aucceed in changing. Now we are assured coming on." his new home with the minimum that there is to be a vogue for
patronise the roadhouse restaur-put, so that we still have a satis Jant..
factory margin to go upon, We To a change in food habits the eat about one-third of a pound a growth of snack bars is a witness day,
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Just Moderately Thirsty Frosh: "Ginger ale." Waiter:. "Palet'! -
Froshi "No, fast a glaws.”
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Personal Pars
of delay. To this end the report feminine trousers at occasions pute forward certain proposals of pomp and ceremony. For one for discussion with
the Do-season then, at least, East will Mr. Chaudurt Bashir Ahamad We can feel sure from all this Theoretically we could eat one jininions.
meet West. We fear, however, Khan, one of the delegates from evidence that our food habits have pound of sugar per head per day There is nothing spectacular that neither the trousered belles India to the XVth International changed qualitatively, and the without endangering our supply of the recommendations, nor the crinolined will do the Conference of Red Cross Societies question is: Have they changed other foodstuffs. Remember too, Group settlement on virgin soil thing handsomely. What dani- to be held at Tokyo in October, is quantitatively? is condemned both on the score of 1984 will wear, like those a passenger on board the N.Y.K.
the craving for sugar of Polar ex- If we turn to statistics, we can lorers and of the members of the
about
of expense and on the ground of the crinoline's golden age, a Haruns Maru which arrived on see that they have. Speaking various Everest expeditions. that a Dominion is more likely to dozen petticoats? breed suitable pioneers for itself
Saturday en route to Japan.. roughly, we can say that the con-
sumption of meat, bread, coffee, and seems a matter of indifference to As regards tea and coffee, it
than to import them from over 21 CHINESE MARTYRS
seas. Moreover, a consideration
Impressive Function In Macao
Bfr. D. D. McKay, accompanied alcoholle drinks has decreased per the dietician whether the consump of the Western Australia Group
by his wife and their daughter, head of the population, whereas tion decrease or increases. Twelve Settlements and of the Canadian
Anu, will leave for the States this there has been a large increase in pounds of tea per head per year 13.000 Families Scheme leads tol
week by the Dollar liner President
the consumption of tea, sugar and say a cost of twenty-four shillings, the conclusion that it is a mfg-
Hoover. Mr. McKay, who has been fruit and vegetables. As regards a year neem neither excessive nor take to attempt to tie settlers to
in the Colony four years, is on the the last two items it is difficult to extravagant Dietetically ten is use the land. The drift to the towns
BEFLAGGED STREETS
staff of the Dollar and American obtain accurate figures because no less unless you believe that a drink exists in the Dominions as well Macao, the port from which also Secretary of the local Trans-
Mail Lines in Hong Kong. He la Census of home production exists, which promotes a sense of well as at home The Committee ia, Catholielam was spread to all parts
Fruit Consumption Record
being with no evil after effects has therefore, in favor of migration of China, was yesterday the gene
Pacific Bureau; **
its value. But we know that imported fruits, by individuals or familles, as beat an impressive ceremony on the Mr. H. E. H. Priestley, who re of 881b, per head, and we cannot ing the method best sulted to the
last year reached the record figure
(Continued on Page 11) national temper and to the con- tion of the 21 Chinese martyrs who
occasion of a service in commemora D. Sassoon Banking Co., Ltd the consumption of fruit produced cently resigned from the Board of doubt that there was on increase in ditions of oversea life. It ac died for the faith before the birth Arnhold and Co., Ltd, and the in Great Britain. Milk we know is cordingly regards the introduc of the Chinese Republic. tion of general reduced passages Fitting ceremonies were per-London by the P, and 0 liner tent the dietician.
Hong Hong Trust Corporation, Ltd., ratés "as the most effective mea formed. The church was decorated Carthage on Friday, and is due here
Is returning to the Colony, He left gradually increasing in consump sure of stimulating satisfactory th flowers and coloured lights,
tion, though, far too slowly to con migration within the Empire alle the surrounding streets, 800n as economic circumstances
on November 1
Summing up the evidence we can become favourable. But the through, which a procession
say that the proportions of the obvious advantages of migration ware beflagged. After the proces Canada on October 12 are
Arriving on the Empress of different foods are altering, so that alon Benediction was sung,
whereas our immediate predeces largely of meat and bread neglected the fruits
at an early and adaptable age The following were the martyrs Anderson and children, cause, the Committe
ther than this, i
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and young person
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that the
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All these
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Mrs. A. L. Shields, Mrs. honoured, with the dates of their GW Drollete death
Chiu Wing, 1816 Ten Yuck,
Hon-tse, 1819 Liu Teb,
kshing, 1814: Chang
1815 Tid
1868
1861 Lo Ting-yar
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Hingha
1862 Yid
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