"You're picking winners well today..... see if you can tell this whisky.'
"It's White Horse, of course—
I could tell it blindfold "
»
The rare and subtle character of White Horse sets it apart from any other whisky. You can tell it by its exquisite bouquet alone. But it is the perfect blending of fragrance with mell- owness and smoothness which makes White Horse Whisky the equal of a fine liqueur. The millions of gallons of finest Scotch whisky matured and maturing ensure that the quality of White Horse never varies.
WHITE HORSE
WHISKY
Sole Agents for South China: JARDINE MATHESON AND COMPANY LTD.
The China Mail
DEALS
CONCISELY AND ACCURATELY
WITH THE NEWS
"EARLIEST WITH THE LATEST"
EAT AT-
Jimmy's Kitchen
INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 16, 1940
What Of That "War Generation" Now?
IT has frequently been stated that children born during 1914-1918 were so affected by war conditions that they were nervous to a degree, even if they were not neurotic. On the other hand, the young airmen in this war, men of 21 to 25, who have shown their cool courage and iron nerves, not to mention their skill as pilots in the "cavalry of the clouds," are the very men who were born during the period of the last war, How are we to reconcile this appar- ent contradiction?
Professor R. Ruggles Gates.
The courage and daring of the pre- sent young generation of airmen is clear enough, and cannot be gain- said. Is there any basis of fact be- hind the other idea that the condi- tions of the last war affected adverse- ly some of the children who were born during or lived through the war period? Did air raids ever produce neurosis in children who were sub-corpuscles if they met. But the pla- jected to them?
CHILDREN BORN IN RAIDS
different blood group from that of the mother, so that the blood of mo- ther and child would coagulate each other or cause clumping of the red
this centa is so constructed that meeting of their blood never happens. The child manufactures its own blood during development.
births
The subject of premature and their effects on the child is a complicated one, and the premature- Ly-born child will sometimes have a considerable leeway of development to make up after birth.
This idea sometimes finds expres- sion in the contention that children born during air raids in the last war were unduly nervous. It may be said at once that there appears to be no medical evidence of any such effect. Children born in air raids appear to be as normal as any others.
Ín Finland, a recent study has Nervousness in a child who hap-been made of nearly 400 children pened to be born in an air raid might | who had been prematurely born. be attributed to this cause by the The children, when 7 to 15 years of mother, just as mentally defective | age, were given intelligence tests- children are generally said to have the well-known Binet-Simon fallen on their heads when they were young, even though it is often clear that the mental defectiveness had a different origin.
tests
were
of
as modified by Terman. The birth- weights of these children were 2,500 grams (about 51⁄2 pound, or less).
These prematurely-born children generally under Air raids might affect an unborn were, of course, child by inducing in the mother a weight at birth. Some were late in premature birth; or it is sometimes learning to walk, and others suggested that if the expectant mo- slow in learning to talk. The intel- ther were subjected repeatedly to ligence quotient (I.Q.). of these fear from air raids her resulting de- children proved to be, in general, bility might, perhaps, affect the child | proportional to their weight at birth, unfavourably. Something will, no and there were other evidences doubt, depend upon the temperament | deficiencies which could be made and general health of the mother. | good only in post-natal development. But the chances of the child being
That deficiency of any kind is by in permanently affected are, any
no means a necessary result of pre- case, small, and there appears to be mature birth is shown, however, by no satisfactory medical evidence that the case of the famous Dionne quin- any such permanent injury actually tuplets, who have recently celebrated occurred in the last war. It is very
their fifth birthday. Their extremely remarkable how Nature has contriv-small size at birth was a much great- ed to protect the welfare of the un- born child, even sometimes at the expense of the mother.
When one kind of fruit tree is grafted on another there is some ef- fect (though generally not great) of stock on sclon, and there may also be a slight reciprocal effect of the scion on the stock. This is because the scion receives its water or sap supply from the stock, the two being
In direct intercommunication.
one
er handicap than the size deficiency in a single prematurely-born infant would be. Yet medical care has not only resulted in their survival and normal development, but they are by no means lacking in brightness.
While very small size is by no means the same thing as under-de- velopment, and in all biological pro- cesses the time element is of great Importance, yet the study of multiple
births shows that with care an ori- ginal deficiency În size can ultimately be overcome in later development of
LEEWAY, TO MAKE UP There is no such direct communi- | the child. cation between mother and child,
therefore in and the child is sense more physiologically indepen- dent of the mother than the scion is of the stock. For instance, the child may have received from its father a
of
While the air raids may therefore have induced a certain number premature births, only a small frac- tton of these undersized children will
(Continued, on Page 11)
Bringing Up Father
BY JOVE-IT'S WONDERFLIL TO TRAVEL-
ONE GETS VERY CULL STAYING
YES I
COULD TRAVEL FOREVER-
I DON'T EVEN MIND GOING TO AN OPERA WHEN WE ARE AWAY FROM HOME-
I COULD TRAVEL.
FOREVER = '1'M · JUST A GYPSY.
AT HEART-
BE IT EVER SO
HUMBLE THERES
PLACE
LIKE
HOME
DEAR OLD LONDON TCAN SEE MY LITTLE
IVY COVERED COTTAGE
HWONDER HOW ALL MY
RE AT
AT HOME-
КВ
By George McMan
YES-FOR TW REASONS- O ACCOUNT a THE SONG-A THE WAY HE
SINGS IT-.
10
4939, King Features Syndicate; I
Tonigh
BEN HINJALE
THE GREAT
TENOR
粒
10