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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Friday, March 22, 1935. ly routes that our sailors were
Gordian Knots
sary by the fact that the For- tuguese. Merchant Adventurers were very active on the Souther- anxious to use, and that Lisbon had driven Venice out of the position of the general, market for. Asiatic and African com-
HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
CHANGING NAMES.
of
The changed place names. modern Europe have giren ring: to many stories.
One is told of an optimistic White Russian, who decided to spend his temporary exile in tho Balkans.
In one of the many official forms which he had to complete this is what appeared:
SCIENCE SEEKS THE KEY TO SLEEP
MANY KNOWN REASONS FOR INSOMNIA
MENTAL WORRY MUST BE CURBED
THE
(By a Harley Street Physician).
"IHE actual' mechanism of going minded bodles." They lo and to sleep has never been com, think--and often worry-when, they, pletely understood. It is often go to bed. They have lost or never Place of birth-St. Petersburg. easier to discover why people do had the power of "nhibition"
not sleep than why they do, the shutting off when they go to Educated Petrograd.
Much research is being done bed of the work, the worries, the Married-Leningradin
now
on the chemical and bio- annoyances, and the troubles of Where do you intend to go folien chemical changes aver taking place the day.
you leave this country?-St. Petersburg.
VERSATILE DEAN
in the body, and this has already They have lost the power of re- led to fruitful Information. When laxation of body and mind, these these changes are still further un-parts, remaining teuso instead of derstood we shall be in a better becoming limp. But, by persever Dr. Hewlett, Johnson, Dean "ot position to state the whys and ance and steady practice, much of Canterbury, has had a remarkable wherefores of various things that this can be overcome, provided the carcer. He was a rowing Blue and come about, and the production of victim realises that this sort of an engineer, and became a mem-sleep may be one of them. ***** thing is actually responsible fon ber of the I.L.P. shortly after or That these changes may be very the insomnia. dination.
profound is well known, and that A little more of the "what must When he was Dean of Manchester they can give rise to many types be, must be" attitude without go. he always went behind the scenes of malady. With increasing know-ing to any fatalistic extremes--majj to visit the performers at the ledge of them, linked with the al- help a great deal, as these people Christinas pantomimes.
most daily greater knowledge of are often fearful. They cross
Other occasions on which he has the functions of the ductless their bridges before they come to been in the limelight were when he glands, much will be explained that them. This, of course, tends to Refused to attend a lunch to in the past has been obscure. On mental, unrest, and where there is M. Maurice Chevalier.
these lines valuable and unremit-mental unrest there is none of the Presided at a garden party ting research is being carried out. relaxation necessary for sleep. organised to better cultural re They are among the last of the Internal Glands Blamed lations with the Soviet.
secrets of the practice of medicine,
Recently a victim of Insomnis- Was refused's permit to visit and lead to the gateway of preven-gave it as his opinion that the Russia,
tion. They may hold the kep to the cause for his condition was due to Did visit Ching,
various problems relating to sleep some of his Internal glands-these Invited Gandhi to evensong in and the lack it.
great governors of hody and mind Canterbury Cathedral.
The Three Types
-not secreting properly, and that Lunched with him ("after a
Some fortunate individuals can their lack of secretion produced good English breakfast").
Suggested that Australia drop off the half an hour in the the sleeplessness. It is much more
and likely to be the other way round, should give Northern Australia afternoon-even with noise
bustle going on around them--and We, know that these mighty In- to Japan. One of the Dean's boasts is that wake feeling thoroughly refreshed ternal glands-the so-called "duct
wake up feeling like nothing on he intensely disturbed, and that by earth. A third type has no hope of this disturbance the whole body dropping off at all.
and mentality can be thrown right These people are what used to out of gear. The states that upset":
too great activity are: Anger (most of all), fear, worry, and shock.
Take a mild. example: Many people who sleep badly go to bed
If there is one thing more than merce, and had not yet been he has never been caned in his life. Others can have the same nap and lessor "endocrine" glande-can
Your Daily Smile!
The easiest way to put 'miles on a
another that is creating distrust superseded by Antwerp, which and cynicism in the political was in turn to yield to London. world it is the marked drop in it would be idle to pretend that the sanctity of treaties, and the there has never been friction
between the two parties, but the new car la to look for a parking space. cailed in Scotland "anxious-these glands and stimulate the o can when they question of
There has honestly be said to have lost old friendship has always count- validity, and who is to decide ed for something.
A Treaty is, of never been war between the two who invented the saying, "Two the question. course, a contract between na-countries and they have fre-heads are better than che," tions; but the analogy can easily quently fought together as Al-
Little Thought:
It must have been a hairdresser
#
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
At the Holens May Institute last with the actual fear on them that evening the last of the series of they will not sleep. Here at once is.
|a; primary, disturbing factor, Except
Inhibition Needed
•
be pushed too far. A contract is lies. During the early Victorian An old Scot was smoking in the winter concerts was held... State, which is abundantly able chase of Delagoa Bay was actual, when a. reporter ‘remonstrated with Snowdon-Jones, the programme) - Inhibition must be cultivated: enforceable by the power of the Period an agreement for the pur-waiting room of a railway station, for vocal contributions by Mre. D
ly signed but when the King
to compel fulfilment except in telegraphed to the Queen that he times of revolution; but
а
him,
Treaty has no such sanction be-/found that if it were carried out Smoking Allowed!" he said.
Corsets'!"
was confined to plano selections, the tap must be turned off when 'No the artistes being Mr. Harry Ore we go to bed. Insomnia, if pro- and Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith, with longed, has its effect on health and Mr. Frederick fason playing the efficiency and happiness. It pro- accompaniment for Mrs. Snowdon- duces fatigue. In the
system; and I am convinced that. many people, sleep badly not be="
* AT THE BARBER'S "Why drop that boiling hot towel on my face?"
"Because it was too hot to hold,"
Personal Pars
nervous
Mr. G. H. C. Hart, Director of cause they go to bed insufficiently the Department of Economic Af-tired but because they are over- fairs of the Netherlands East In- tixed-especially mentally. I have: dles, and Mrs. Hart, now on a tour seen this over and over again. of China, were the guests at a To try to tire yourself out in: tea party and reception given by order to sleep is certain to meet the Chinese Chamber of Com- with defeat. The over-tired nervous: merce yesterday afternoon.
system becomes irritable, restless and resentful,Thus it expresies
"Don't you see that notice, he would lose his throne the docu-
"Aye," said, the Scot, "but hind it unless one of the parties
In spite of the fil odour of the canna keep all yer daft rules. Look has a great preponderance ofment was torn up. power, and is ready to use it. But a contract will only be en-expression from the use of it by von ither notice. Wear Blank's Chancellor von Bethmann Holl- forced by a Court if it complies weg, it is true that a Treaty is with certain conditions. It must "a scrap of paper", it cannot be not only proved to have been secure its own survival. A diplo made willingly, but must have a matist is sent abroad to secure clear meaning it must not be the interests of his fellow citi- “unconscionable" in requiring zens; but no amount of creden-replied the barber. something intolerable; it must not tials will bind them to observe be contra bonos mores in requiring conditions that they feel to be something forbidden by law, and destructive of the national life. And all these objections For that they are prepared to
The funeral of the late Mrs. Ce-its fatigue, thus are the factors: can be pleaded not merely for overturn their own Government, University, Peiping, was among the cile Young, the mother of Mr. that produce insomnia set in mo... cancellation but for modification, and they cannot be expected to passengers who disembarked from Joseph Anthony Young, who died tion.
Digestive Derangement the Court considering what will show more consideration to a for- the ss. President Grant, this mor-on at the French Hospital on Wed-
nesday, took place yesterday at the On the physical side the most be a fair order to make to carry eign Government It is only aning..
Catholic Cemetery. Among the potent cause of sleeplessness is out the original intention and question of opportunity. Occa
were the daughter-in-chronic and often purpose of the parties.
Ision will be taken when the other! Mrs. C. H. Pao, wife of the Chin-mourners
unsuspected That there is no international party is in difficulties to repudiate ese Consul at Johannesburg, South law, Mrs. J. A. Young and her five digestive derangement. The Amer!
children.
cans have labelled the type suffer tribunal with the authority and the inconvenient or oppressive Africa, arrived in the Colony for a
ing from this as the "colonic" man.. impartiality to perform these agreement. At the end of the short visit this morning on board
The annual general meeting, of He has restless and broken nights: functions for States and to inter-Crimean War one of the stipula-the 8.a. President Grant.
members of the Hong Kong General and wakes up in none too good a pret and regulate and enforce tions agreed to by Russia was
80 on.
Mr. J. H. Stuart of the Yen Ching
Treaties is unfortunately only that no port of the Black Sea Mr. Kenneth G. McNab, Insurance Chamber of Commerce will be held temper; his expression is dejected. too obvious; in considering the should be fortified. Choosing a superintendent for the Manufac in the offices of the Chamber of With the putting in order of the present chaos it is necessary to favourable moment Russia simply turers Life Insurance Company, of Commerce, Chartered Bank Build-whole digestive tract, dleep will think what would happen in pri-declared that she was going to Toronto, Canada, was, among the ing, on Monday, at 4.30 p.m. return surely and normally. This vate commerce if there were no fortify the port of Batoum, and passengers, who arrived in the
vitally important part of the bodys Courts to which a man could ap-in spite of a caustic proteat by Colony this morning by the ss. Pre For obtaining 480 pigeon egge when out of health, acts reflexly as
from the Hang Shun shop by pre a particular irritant to the nervous. nical There would still be Lord Rosebery nothing was done aldent Grant. agreements of one sort or an-about it, Russia at that time be-
tending that he was employed by the system and has a most deleterious
other, and there would still being in Alliance with France, who Mrs. Rodger, wife of Mr. G. S. Mo Ki vegetable atall in Western effect on sleep. It produces Ima differences of attitude to them had been our Ally when the Rodger, superintendent of the Hong Market, Cheung Lam, unemployed, pure blood, and this is scarcely the some men being more reluctant Treaty was sighed. In fact, in Kong Tramways, Limited, arrived was sentenced to six weeks hard kind of bath the brain requires to than others to break their pro-spite of all that is said about in the Colony on board the B., Pre-labour by Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at lull it into unbroken tranquillity. mikes. But the ruling considera- treachery, and bad faith, it is sident Hoover this morning.
the Central Police Court thia-mor- ning, tion would be the calculation of simply the truth that an implicit
the chances of reprisal, and the condition underlying every Treaty rogation would have caused far balance of advantage, just as it is "rebus sic stantibus", "condi- more lllwill. A good instance of Charged with unlawfully pawning to with nations to day: There is tions remaining the same, the second Alteractive in the a pair of hair clippers on Sunday, [room for quite a fascinating en- We are driven back to the con- Postal Convention, which can be and a razor on Tuesday, Lau Yuen quiry into the validity of Trea- clusion that unless agreements brought up to date by a meeting Chi, unemployed, was bound over in ties from the point of view of between Nations are extremely of representatives held, periodi- a boad of $75 to come up for Judg. the length of their life and the simple, such as an undertaking cally. It was actually provided ment, within 12 months by Mr. B. L reasons for supersession or to preserve peace and amity, in the terms of the Versailles Wynne-Jones at the Central Police breakdown. There is no need to and in these cases the words are Treaty that a power of revision Court this morning. adopt the cynical principle:some-so vague that they are dificult to should reat with the League
times put forward that Treatles apply to any actual dispute it Council; but the object was de Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 are observed as long as it is to is a mistake to aim at any rigid feated by the requirement of hours ending at 10 am.. to-day, was the interest of both parties to or permanent pacts. The best plan unanimity, which has never been 0.68 inch. The total since January observe them.” There is_al is to fix a date when the docu-obtainable. Hence a complete 1 la 3.87 inches, as against an aver- ways a long and a short view of ment will lanse unless it is re breakdown", on major political age of: 4,80 inches.. interests, and it is the long view newed, or else within the Treaty issues, which has compelled, the
that is the most politic in the itself to provide for a method of third,, or Gordian alternative, of Summoned, for driving in a road ende
amending its terms. The first cutting the knots that cannot be closed to traffic, in Glenealy, Mr. B
-- Our own oldest uncancelled alternative was that chosen for united. “And the logic of the H. Church, driver of private car. No, Treaty in the fourteenth century the Washington, Naval, Treaty situation prevents official protests 6719 was this morning fined $10 by declaration of peace and amity and we may be sure, that had if from being backed by any general Mr. W. Schofield at the Centra: with Portugal, rendered neces-not been so provided Japan's ab. Indignation